Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch. · Little old lady. · An instance of the interjection "LOL".
To laugh out loud.
Laughing (or laugh) out loud. · Lots of laughs. (occasionally used) · Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious; sometimes extends to irony or sardonicism, in the same way that spoken humor sometimes does. Often now a discourse marker independent of laughter. · Lots of love.
Acronym of laugh(ing) out loud, apparently coined by Canadian Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first attested in 1989.
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