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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ROTFL |
Slang | Verb. Source: Stands for "rolling on the floor laughing". Definition: It means that another person said something funny. Context: When chatting on line. Social Source: Bay area college students. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ROTFL | English | Rolling On The Floor Laughing | Computer - (slang, Usenet, IRC) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ROTFL |
| Specialty definitions using "ROTFL": ROTFLMAO, ROTFLOL. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rotfl | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fort, loft, rolf, rotl. | |
-2 letters: for, fro, lot, oft, ort, rot, tor. | |
-3 letters: lo, of, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: floret, lofter. | |
+2 letters: felwort, floater, florets, florist, floruit, flouter, footler, frontal, lofters, loftier, refloat, telford, trefoil, trifold. | |
+3 letters: deflator, fellator, felworts, flatiron, flatwork, flatworm, fleawort, floaters, floatier, florists, floruits, flouters, floweret, fluorite, footlers, forefelt, forestal, foretell, foretold, forklift, fourthly, frontals, frontlet, frostily, frothily, inflator, leftover, platform, refloats, sportful, telfords, trefoils, trifocal, worthful, wrothful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 54 46 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- - ..-. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010100 01000110 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O T F L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0054 0046 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5249544046 |
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