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Etymology

From rofl +‎ -copter. Though popularized by the image at roflcopter.com (a website, now defunct) in 2004, the term appears to have enjoyed some use in 2003 and beyond, though seldom.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒfl̩ˌkɑptɚ/
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Interjection

roflcopter

  1. (Internet slang) That made me laugh.
    roflcopter, that's funny stuff!
    • 2012, Kelvin MacKenzie, Chas Newkey-Burden, The Twitter History of the World, London: John Blake, →ISBN, page 12:
      @Chrysippus
      Just got a donkey drunk and I'm now going to get it eat figs. This is pure ROFLCOPTER!
      8.12pm, April 30, 207BC
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:roflcopter.

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