What Does LOL Mean? 19 Different Things and Counting
Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2008
by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info
You've probably seen this acronym at the end of a comment, sentence or chat online. The first time I saw it, I thought the writer had insulted me. So I struck back hard with something nastier. Then I found out what each letter of LOL stood for, and I felt like a fool, really stupid. But then as I stumbled upon other meanings of LOL, I thought, "May be I was right to feel insulted the first time someone gave me the LOL."
Since then, here are some of the meanings of LOL that I have found, plus others I have in mind myself, depending on whether the online chat is friendly, ugly or downright mean.
What else could LOL mean?
- Lots Of Love: straight from the heart; a warm fuzzy feeling that can travel across electrons.
- Left Over Love: the one you still have for your former sweetheart.
- Loser Of Losers: for someone you really despise, or someone you're frustrated with; the worst kind of loser; worse than a loser.
- Left Over Loser: a loser that is sour; may be the same as a sore loser, only worse off.
- Lord Of Lords: no, not "Lord Of the Ring"; that would be LOR. LOL in this case is a title of that most popular person whoever lived -- Jesus Christ, whom the Bible calls "Lord of Lords".
- Learn Or Lose: similar to sink or swim; that's what you tell someone who lacks any drive, who's too lazy to get off his butt, leave the cave, kill something and drag it home.
- Lots Of Lies: refers to a habitual liar; please don't say President Bill Clinton, and don't you say President George W. Bush.
- Live Or Leave: for someone who needs to get a life; also for a child who refuses to live by your rules, though he or she eats your food, sleeps in your house, rides in your car with your gas in it, not to mention that the child came from your loins or womb in the first place.
- Leave Or Live: same as the above.
- Laugh Out Loud: invitation to and motivation for someone who's humor-challenged, someone who takes life too seriously, a license to loosen up and have some fun.
- Log Off Loser: insult for your Internet adversary, a faceless enemy whom you wish to suffer electronic dead end or electronic death.
- Loser On Line: you've spent all kinds of money on get-rich-quick Internet schemes or opportunities, but you're still broke, and you're paying for wealth opps.
- Live On Line: when you want to slam your kid, boyfriend, or husband who spends too much time on the web, like he or she is married to the computer or worse.
- Land Of Liberty: that's a nickname for the United States of America; the name "Liberia" (a country in West Africa) also means "land of liberty"; it should be the description of every country where the people think they are free to own property, make a profit, and curse their leaders by graffiti, on the web or over the airwaves, without fear of being arrested, intimidated or tortured.
- Live On Lawn: it's the farthest distance to which an unhappy wife can exile her insensitive husband; the lawn is like the dog house, worse than the couch; I haven't been kicked out that far...YET.
- Little Or Lot: it's what you tell human resources when you're desperate for a job and a pay check, or when your income has dropped and sunk like a rock -- I will take little or lot.
- Li'l Ole Lady: short for Little Old Lady; what you call Mom, Grandma, or any female senior citizen you're having problems with right now, or it could be words of endearment in some cases.
- Lots Of Ladies: from a guy who just likes to hang out with the ladies; perhaps a womanizer.
- Left Over Lady: you're a guy, and your buddy grabbed the prettier girl, and now you're stuck with this one; LOL!
What else could LOL mean?
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Top-level comments on this article: (10 total)Well, I've always used it in what I believe is the original meaning : Laughing Out Loud.
I have a friend who uses it as Lots of Love.
All those other meanings I've never heard of, but they're interesting.
Will have to take better note of the context in future! LOLYes, Hannah, in my years of online exchanges, when it comes to the meaning of LOL, "context" is key or king to decoding the correct meaning every time. If I have a friendly or humorous relation with the person on the other keyboard, then I assume LOL = Lots of Love or Laugh Out Loud. ~mogama~
Hi Mogama.When I first saw it, I thought it meant "lots of luck." Then I thought maybe "lots of love."You've come up with some very creative other meanings. Thanks for sharing.DianneThanks for your input. ~mogama~
LEFT OVER LASAGNALasagna happens to be one my favorite foods! Thanks for your input. ~mogama~
How about Lots Of Lunacy?There's a lot of truth to that, LeKaren. Thanks for your input. ~mogama~
LOADS OF LOVEThere's just no end to LOL. Thanks for your input. ~mogama~
lol=leap on larry
lots of lamas=lolThanks, Eric, for adding your 2 cents. ~mogama~
Mogama I like the various meanings you have found for LOL, I would like to share some of mine...Lots of lights, Loss of life,Lesson on life...Thanks, Bertie, for adding those, LOL. ~mogama~
Yes this article was indeed helpful as i came to see it more often when i joined FaceBookFor some reason I'm receiving very late notifications of some comments to some of my articles, and I can't figure out why. Could be the settings in my Control Panel or something... Anyway, thanks Bertie; I was not aware that this article has been showing up on Facebook. ~mogama~
I really liked all these different meannings for lol and all but I think I would rather write whole words rather than abbreviate in his instance.There is just too many meanings.You will leave the person you are writing to in a daze....Yep, it's better to just do long hand so that the reader does not interpret "little old lady" when you meant "lots of laughter". Thanks, Lulu, for your comment.
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