lolcat

See also: LOLcat

English

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Etymology

From lol +‎ cat.

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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑl.kæt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

lolcat (plural lolcats)

  1. (Internet, neologism, dated) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.
    • 2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in TIME‎[1], archived from the original on 8 March 2016:
      I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.
  2. (uncountable, Internet, neologism) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.

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