lolcat

plural lolcats · alternative LOLcat

1. InternetdatedneologismAn image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

   I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

   2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2016

2. InternetneologismuncountableThe deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.

plural LOLcats

1. Alternative letter-case form of lolcat.

   A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop. It's visually distracting and makes it easy to get derailed from the task at hand. (“Hey, lemme peek at that hilarious LOLcat just one more time!”)

   2011, Adam Pash, Gina Trapani, Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better