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LOL (also written with some or all letters lowercase, most commonly as lol or LoL) is a common element of Internet slang used historically on Usenet but now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is an abbreviation for "laughing out loud"[1][2] or "laugh out loud".[3] LOL is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as ROTFL ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"),[4][5] a more emphatic expressions of laughter, and BWL ("bursting with laughter"), above which there is "no greater compliment" according to technology columnist Larry Magid.[6] Other unrelated expansions include the less common "lots of luck" or "lots of love".[7]

The list of acronyms "grows by the month"[4] and they are collected along with emoticons and smileys into folk dictionaries that are circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms of (textual)......

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