Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

billion laughs

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables: bil-lion laughs
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.

Example Sentences

"The XML billion laughs DoS attack simply starts by declaring an XML document with an entity named lol (hence the name laugh gets associated with it, but in a general case it can be any valid name)."

Etymology

In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).

Phrases

XML bomb

Frequently Paired Words

XML bomb

Questions

What does billion laughs mean?: A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.
Where does billion laughs come from?: In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).

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