Meaning of lolcat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.
   Internet, dated, neologism
2. The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.
   Internet, neologism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop. It's visually distracting and makes it easy to get⟳ derailed from the task at hand. (“Hey, lemme peek at that hilarious LOLcat just one more time!”)”

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