LOL (also written lol) is a common element of Internet slang used, historically, on Usenet but now widespread to other forms of computer-mediated communication such as Yahoo and MSN Messenger, and even spread to face-to-face communication. It is an acronym for "laughing out loud" or "laugh out loud", or, less commonly, "lots of luck". "LOL" is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as "ROFL" (or "ROTFL") ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"), a more emphatic expression of laughter, "LMAO" ("laughing my ass off")
Laughing Out Loud - an abbreviation used in E-mails and chat rooms There are a lot of abbreviations for both email and chat rooms A good source of definitions can be found at Alphabet Soup Explained: http: //members aol com/nigthomas/alphabet html
1 Slang: an abbreviation used to describe a Little Ol' Lady; 2 An abbreviation used with online bridge players, and which generally means Laughing Out Loud