# LMAO

Pronunciation: say "el-em-ay-OH" US /ɛlˌɛmˌeɪˈoʊ/, UK /ɛlˌɛmˌeɪˈəʊ/

## Interjection

1. Short for laughing my ass/arse off: used in online messages to show that something is very funny, often with exaggeration. — Initialism of laughing my ass/arse off; used to indicate great amusement, usually exaggerated.
   - Simple: Short for laughing my ass/arse off: written online to show that something is very funny.
   - _LMAO, my dog just tried to bark at his own reflection again._
   - _His only response to the blooper reel was a string of "LMAO" messages._

## Verb

2. To laugh extremely hard, to the point of being helpless with amusement.
   - Simple: To laugh very hard at something funny.
   - _My friends and I lmao at his terrible puns every single time._
   - _She kept lmaoing through the entire stand-up set._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/lmao (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).