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lulz

/lʌlz/

lulz noun: fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.

Noun

lulz (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.
    • Anonymous gets big lulz from pulling random pranks.2007 July 26, KTTV Fox 11 News report
    • the antics of the Goons and /b/tards might actually sharpen our ability to make that distinction. To those who think the griefers' handiwork is simply inexcusable: Well, being inexcusable is, after all, the griefers' job. Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one...2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired, issue 16.02

Examples of lulz in a sentence

  • Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one thing they crave: the lulz.2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in...
  • Like “Hakuna matata” in The Lion King, “lulz” is not just a word, but a philosophy. [...] Anonymous has made campaigning sexy for the first time since 1968.2008 June 20, Tom Whipple, “Scientology: the Anonymous protestors”, in The Times:
  • A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium.2008 August 3, Mattathias Schwartz, “Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling”, in The New York Times:
  • The casual sadism of trolling was just “lulz,” which shouldn’t be taken seriously.2020 September 30, Helen Lewis, “The Joke’s on Us”, in The Atlantic:

Forms of lulz

alternative formlolz

Origin of lulz

Alteration of lol using the suffix -z, a deliberately nonstandard variant of the plural marker -s.

Words formed from lulz

Words that rhyme with lulz

Questions about lulz

What does lulz mean?
Lulz means fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.
How do you use lulz in a sentence?
Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one thing they crave: the lulz.
What part of speech is lulz?
Lulz is a noun.
How do you pronounce lulz?
Lulz is pronounced /lʌlz/.

Words near lulz in the dictionary

  1. Lulworth
  2. Lulworth Cove
  3. Lulworth skipper
  4. Lulworth skippers
  5. Luly
  6. lulz
  7. lulz-worthy
  8. lulz0rs
  9. lulzacite
  10. lulzcow
  11. lulzcows

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