lolsob

plural lolsobs

1. InternetA simultaneous laugh and sob; by extension, something both sad and absurd.

   Seriously?! Two lovebirds reunited after decades, and all he can come up with is "Happy New Year?" It's such a lolsob moment.

   2024, Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties, page 36

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   Your time is flexible. This is the biggest lolsob of all. You can spend all morning dicking about on Twitter and then have to stay up all night working.

   2018, Raven Smith, “Home. Work.”, in System Magazine, number 11, page 87

   In the parlance of the social media platform X (olim Twitter), Maximianus and the Langland of B.20 are poets of the “lolsob”.

   2025, Eric Weiskott, “William Langland and Maximianus on Impotence”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 126, number 2, page 101

present singular third person lolsobs · participle present lolsobbing · participle past lolsobbed · past lolsobbed

1. InternetTo cry and laugh at the same time.

   TJ wants to lolsob every time he sees it now. He can't even manage his own life.

   2025, Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), page 47

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   The second rarest element is unallocated engineering time. We kid, of course. But if you're a product or an engineering manager, you're probably “lolsobbing” at that joke (sorry, managers!).

   2022, Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence, page 175

   To name a few of the founding badasses from the golden era of the final girl, the 1970s: Sally Hardesty of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), a girl reckless enough to leave hearth and home to take a road trip with her brother and friends, who lolsobs at the thwarted killer, Leatherface, from the back of the pickup truck she escapes in while he chops the air with his chainsaw in frustration.

   2025, Gina Brandolino, Joe Carlough, Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media, unnumbered page

1. InternetRepresenting simultaneous laughter and crying.

   It's weird to think about or whatever but mothers are the first things we consume lolsob.

   2019, Tommy Pico, “Acknowledgements”, in Feed, unnumbered page

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   My 70-plus-cormorbities-out-of-the-wazoo aunt and uncle who live in Arizona are still going to visit my 70-plus parents (same time) and they're all going to go to a casino in Tahoe together to hang out at the end of the month. *Lolsob*

   2021, Cassandra Alexander, Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir, unnumbered page

   And to everyone who has squealed about this book in person on socials at a time when it feels like we're all yelling into the void (LOLsob).

   2024, Sarah Henning, “Acknowledgements”, in The Lies We Conjure, unnumbered page