Meaning

(intransitive) To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
2. (intransitive) To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
3. (ambitransitive) To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.

Example Sentences

And think'ſt thou, Jove himſelf, with Patience then / Can hear a Pray'r condemn'd by wicked Men? / That, void of Care, he lolls ſupine in State, / And leaves his Bus'neſs to be done by Fate?

The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but [Ice Age:] Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

Liv's head lolled to the side and rested on his shoulder.

Nor thy reſiſtleſs Arm the Bull withſtood: / Nor He the roaring Terror of the Wood. / The triple Porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling Tongue, lay fawning at thy Feet: / And, ſeiz'd with Fear, forgot his mangled Meat.

Crouching on its stomach, the dog moved with him, teeth glittering, tongue lolling.

The ox stood lolling in the furrow.

The combatants with rage most horrible Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare, And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air, Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]

[W]hen he saw the hundreds of heads of cattle lolling their greedy way through his grass, he ran towards them wildly, waving his arms, screaming.

Word Forms

• lolls
• lolling
• lolled

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