for the lols

A form of for the lulz — For kicks, for personal amusement, especially schadenfreude.

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of for the lulz.

    Then there's the stuff Bowie read for the lols, for example the book he and his childhood friend Geoff MacCormack amused themselves by reciting chunks from on an Amtrak train from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in September 1974—a pornographic novel called Yodel in the Canyon.

    2019, John O’Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf, →ISBN
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Chicago

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