"lolcat" meaning in English

See lolcat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈlɑl.kæt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lolcat.wav Forms: lolcats [plural]
Etymology: From lol + cat. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|lol|cat}} lol + cat Head templates: {{en-noun}} lolcat (plural lolcats)
  1. (Internet, neologism) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption. Tags: Internet, neologism Categories (topical): Internet, Internet memes Categories (lifeform): Cats Translations (image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption): lolcat [masculine] (French), lolchat [masculine] (French), Lolcat [masculine] (German), लॉलकैट (lŏlkaiṭ) [masculine] (Hindi), lolcat (Hungarian), ロルキャット (rorukyatto) (Japanese), 롤캣 (rolkaet) (Korean), ло́лкет (lólket) [masculine] (Macedonian), लोल्कॅट (lolkĕṭ) [masculine] (Marathi), لولکت (lul-kat) (Persian), śmieszne koty [neuter] (Polish), лолко́т (lolkót) [masculine] (Russian), лолкэ́т (lolkɛ́t) [masculine] (Russian), лолке́т (lolkɛ́t) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lolcat-en-noun-2jJKeAmd Disambiguation of Internet memes: 81 19 Disambiguation of Cats: 57 43 Categories (other): English neologisms, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 56 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of 'image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption': 91 9
  2. (uncountable, Internet, neologism) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions. Tags: Internet, neologism, uncountable Categories (topical): Internet
    Sense id: en-lolcat-en-noun-da5EFJ6i Categories (other): English neologisms, English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Persian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: lolspeak [English, form-of], LOLspeak [English, form-of], LOLcat Related terms: kitteh, Caturday

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.