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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