by Idk3685 July 3, 2018

by Lol… lol lol lol January 6, 2022

Meaning, laugh out loud, can be referred to when someone says something funny or you have said something funny. Normally used in text messages or out loud in a conversation with friends or family (Informal phrase)
by HuskyLover99 November 8, 2017

Originally meant "laughing out loud," but according to linguist and 'TED Talks' guest, John McWhorter, "lol" eventually came to be used as a pragmatic particle or verbal space filler, if you will, before finally evolving to it's current state of popular use as a marker of empathy, accommodation, or understanding, quite often of something that isn't a great thing.
Nowadays when people say "lol," you can obviously see that it no longer means "laughing out loud," and that it more likely means something like "Well shit! The struggle is real but the thing you're talking about probably won't turn out 'too' bad compared to, oh I dunno, literal Satan, for example."
Nowadays when people say "lol," you can obviously see that it no longer means "laughing out loud," and that it more likely means something like "Well shit! The struggle is real but the thing you're talking about probably won't turn out 'too' bad compared to, oh I dunno, literal Satan, for example."
Obbapobble Sobbucksdobbicks: "Dude, I just dropped my phone in the daaaayme toilet again, and right on top of a tuuurd this time!"
Trobbumps Obbafobbag: "lol damn, dude! That suurrrks! I've done that so many times!"
Trobbumps Obbafobbag: "lol damn, dude! That suurrrks! I've done that so many times!"
by The Super-Polite Rapist May 8, 2016
