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lolcat

/ˈlɑl.kæt/

lolcat noun: an image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat: an image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption
Image: Clancy Ratliff from St. Paul, MN, U.S, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun (1)

lolcat (plural lolcats)

  1. (Internet, dated, neologism) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.
    • 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.2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2016
  2. (Internet, neologism, uncountable) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.

Noun (2) capitalized: LOLcat

LOLcat (plural LOLcats)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lolcat.
    • A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop. It's visually distracting and makes it easy to get derailed from the task at hand. (“Hey, lemme peek at that hilarious LOLcat just one more time!”)2011, Adam Pash, Gina Trapani, Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better

lolcat meaning in Hindi, Marathi and Persian

lolcat in Hindi

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humorous caption
लॉलकैट lŏlkaiṭ

lolcat in Marathi

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humorous caption
लोल्कॅट lolkĕṭ

lolcat in Persian

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humorous caption
لولکت lul-kat

Forms of lolcat

plurallolcats
alternative formLOLcat
pluralLOLcats

Origin of lolcat

From lol + cat.

From LOL + cat.

Questions about lolcat

What does lolcat mean?
Lolcat means an image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.
What is lolcat in Hindi?
Lolcat in Hindi is लॉलकैट (lŏlkaiṭ). See Lolcat meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lolcat?
Lolcat is a noun.
How do you pronounce lolcat?
Lolcat is pronounced /ˈlɑl.kæt/ (US).
What is the plural of lolcat?
The plural of lolcat is lolcats.

Words near lolcat in the dictionary

  1. lolbertarian
  2. lolbertarians
  3. lolberts
  4. LOLBin
  5. LOLBins
  6. lolcat
  7. lolcats
  8. lolcow
  9. lolcows
  10. lold
  11. Loleatta

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lolcat (page history and authors); LOLcat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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