aol
/ˈeɪˈoʊˈɛl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.24 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
3
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An American web portal and former online service provider.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Other sites in the AOL network are also getting "updated experiences," according to Wilson, "including greater AOL attribution presence and consistency.""
- "(Mad Pierre had showered her with his customary praise as well, exclaiming on IRC that she made him behave “like a testosteronal teenager in an AOL chat room”—a line that Shiksaa was quick to appropriate for use in her Usenet signature.)"
- ">Now Black Velvet by Alannah Miles^([sic]) has always sent shivers down my spine, something about her voice. AOL! I've heard that one being karaoke'd, by someone with a pretty good voice, but it really needs Alannah Miles's vocals to do it justice."
- "It was to this that I AOLed. I have no intent to suggest that I do not appreciate physical beauty, either in the oppostie^([sic]) gender or in fact in my own, which has given several girls of my acquaintance a nasty shock an^([sic]) caused some extreme allegations to be made regarding my personal sexual preferences (all right, I was at a boarding school at the time)."
- "It's also an acronym which implies "I agree", referring to the AOLers' habit, when AOL first gave them access to usenet,^([sic]) of quoting whole, and lengthy posts, just to add the words 'me too' at the end. In other words, I agree totally with whatever I AOLed."
- "If there were a alt.fan.esmi I'd be your persistent lurkah. I would support you in email for all eternity, for as long as you continue to express your thoughts with a grace and colouration which effortlessly turns insult and high dudgeon into overweaning false sanctimoniousness. […] Sockii (Maybe I should'a AOLed...)"