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lolcats

lolcats is the plural of lolcat.

Meaning of lolcat

Noun

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 capitalized: LOLcats

LOLcats

  1. (plural) plural of LOLcat

Questions about lolcats

What is lolcats the plural of?
Lolcats is the plural of lolcat.
What part of speech is lolcats?
Lolcats is a noun.

Words near lolcats in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lolcats (page history and authors); LOLcats (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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