Etymology

lolz

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Today it means: Used to express laughter, often in a sarcastic fashion. Full definition →

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lolz · interjection, noun1

A corruption of lol, probably a leet variation, treated as if it were a noun rather than an interjection and pluralized in a deliberately unconventional manner using the -z suffix.

LOLZ · interjection2

LOL (Initialism of laughing out loud.) + -z (Eye dialect spelling variant of the plural suffix -s.)

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