acronym🔤 abbreviation
ROFL
rolling on the floor laughing
What it means
ROFL stands for 'rolling on the floor laughing' — a step up from LOL, suggesting something is extremely funny. It can be said as a word ('ROFF-ul') and combines with LMAO into the even stronger ROFLMAO.
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Examples
- ROFL, that video killed me.
- His reaction had me rofl.
- ROFL, did that actually happen?
- The blooper reel was pure ROFL material.
Where it comes from
An internet initialism from early chat culture, built to express harder laughter than the older LOL.
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