Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
A corruption of lol, probably a leet variation, treated as if it were a noun rather than an interjection and pluralized in a deliberately unconventional manner using the -z suffix.
1999:"you mean "C"hina??? lolz!!!" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.politics.tibet/msg/74bdbd4eb17f4b22
A corruption of lol, probably a leet variation, treated as if it were a noun rather than an interjection and pluralized in a deliberately unconventional manner using the -z suffix.
According to some, we should just accept our language being the subject of derision because you know; the lolz.2019 July 2, Gareth Ceidiog Hughes, “Why we shouldn’t tolerate ‘jokes’ that deride the Welsh language as gobbledygook”, in Nation.Cymru:
Maybe he should just have some fun. While he could. Stuff the cabinet with a whole load of idiots. […] Just for the lolz.2023 July 20, John Crace, “With all his plans in tatters, Rishi eyes some reshuffle lolz”, in The Guardian:
Yoram Bauman, the world’s first and only stand-up economist, likes to inject some lolz into grim climate economics (kind of like Grist).2015 January 27, Randy Stewart, “But seriously, folks — this stand-up economist says Republicans will like his carbon tax”, in Grist: