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Lokiceratops

Lokiceratops rangiformis, "Loki's horned face," a giant centrosaurine ceratopsid described in PeerJ in 2024 from Montana's 78-million-year-old Judith River Formation, lacking a nose horn and bearing the largest frill horns known.

Lokka Reservoir

Lokka Reservoir (Lokan tekojärvi) is a man-made lake in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland, created in 1967 by damming the Luiro River. It is one of the largest in the European Union.

Loknatak

Loknatak (लोकनाट्य) is the Hindi term for the traditional folk theater of India: plays created and staged by ordinary people without formal training, rooted in local tradition.

Lokomat

The Lokomat is a robotic exoskeleton made by Hocoma in Switzerland since 2001 that guides the legs of patients with neurological walking impairments through gait training on a treadmill.

Lokomotiv

Локомотив (Lokomotiv): name shared by railway-origin sports societies, clubs, and stadiums across former Soviet states; FC Lokomotiv Moscow (founded 1922) and venues in Sofia, Plovdiv, Novosibirsk, Daugavpils.

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash

The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, or air disaster, killed 44 of 45 aboard a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team near Yaroslavl, Russia, in 2011.

Lokomotiva

NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, founded 1914 as Željezničarski športski klub Victoria, is a Croatian HNL football club from Kajzerica, Zagreb; HNL runners-up 2012/13 and 2019/20, known for youth development and its Dinamo Zagreb cooperation.

Lokono language

Lokono (Lokono dian), also called Arawak, is a critically endangered Northern Arawakan language of coastal Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, closely related to Wayuu; only elderly speakers remain, with revitalization and school-curriculum efforts underway in Guyana.

Lokpal

Lokpal (लोकपाल), India's Union anti-corruption ombudsman under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013, distinct from state Lokayuktas; first appointed 2019 (P. C. Ghose), investigates Prevention of Corruption Act offences.

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (গোপীনাথ বৰদলৈ)

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, also called Guwahati Airport or LGBI Airport, serves Guwahati in Assam, India, and is named after the state's first Chief Minister.

Loks Land

Loks Land is an island in Nunavut's Canadian Arctic Archipelago, off Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula at the entrance to Frobisher Bay, named by Martin Frobisher for Michael Lok.

Loktak Lake

Loktak Lake, in Bishnupur district, Manipur, is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, a Ramsar site (no. 463, designated 1990) famous for its floating phumdis and Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world's only floating national park and home of the Sangai deer.

Lokvir Kapoor

Lokvir Kapoor is an Indian technology executive, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Pine Labs, a merchant-payments company that listed on Indian stock exchanges in 2025.

LOL

LOL, the initialism for "laughing out loud", originated on 1980s bulletin boards and the 1989 Fidonet newsletter; it now works as a discourse marker, tone marker, phatic filler, verb, and quasi-punctuation rather than literal laughter.

LOL - Chi ride è fuori

LOL - Chi ride è fuori (LOL: Last One Laughing Italy) is a Prime Video Italian comedy show adapting Hitoshi Matsumoto's Japanese format Documental: ten comedians, six hours, no laughing, €100,000 to charity, debuting 1 April 2021.

LOL (2012 film)

LOL (2012) is an American teen comedy-drama, an auto-remake by Lisa Azuelos of her 2008 French film, starring Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore; a Lionsgate release that flopped critically and commercially.

LOL (HITOSHI MATSUMOTO presents ドキュメンタル)

LOL: Last One Laughing, originally HITOSHI MATSUMOTO Presents Documental (ドキュメンタル), is Hitoshi Matsumoto's Amazon Prime Video comedy survival show: ten comedians, 1 million yen entry fee each, six hours, last one not laughing wins 10 million yen.

Lol Creme

Lol Creme (Laurence Neil Creme, born 1947) is an English guitarist, singer, and keyboardist of 10cc and Godley & Creme, co-inventor of the Gizmotron, and a pioneering music video director.

LoL Park

LoL Park (롤 파크), CHZZK LoL Park since 2026, is Riot Games Korea's ~450-seat esports arena on floor 3 of Gran Seoul, Jongno, Seoul; opened September 2018 (~30 billion won), home of LCK regular season and 2025 First Stand.

Lol Tolhurst

Lol Tolhurst (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst), born 1959, co-founded the Cure with schoolfriend Robert Smith, drummed through Pornography (1982), switched to keyboards, left in 1989, later formed Levinhurst and wrote Cured and Goth: A History.

LOL: Last One Laughing Philippines

LOL: Last One Laughing Philippines is a Prime Video comedy reality competition, the local adaptation of Hitoshi Matsumoto's Documental, hosted by Vice Ganda; ten comedians endure six hours without laughing for ₱1 million, with Chad Kinis winning season 1 in 2024.

LOL: Last One Laughing UK

LOL: Last One Laughing UK is a Prime Video British comedy reality series adapted from Japan's Documental, hosted by Jimmy Carr with Roisin Conaty, where ten comedians must not laugh for six hours; Bob Mortimer won series 1 in March 2025.

Lola (1961 film)

Lola (1961) is Jacques Demy's debut feature, a French-Italian romantic drama set in Nantes starring Anouk Aimée as a cabaret singer waiting for her lost love Michel, with Marc Michel as Roland, music by Michel Legrand and cinematography by Raoul Coutard.

Lola (1981 film)

Lola is a 1981 West German satirical drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the third and chronologically final film of his BRD Trilogy, adapted from Heinrich Mann's Professor Unrat.

Lola (1989 film)

Lola is a 1989 Mexican-Spanish drama film directed by María Novaro, about a young single mother who supports her seven-year-old daughter as a street vendor in Mexico City.

Lola (2024 film)

Lola (2024) is an American drama, the directorial debut of Nicola Peltz Beckham, who writes, directs, and stars as Lola James saving money to free her brother Arlo from a toxic home; released February 9, 2024 by Vertical, distinct from Grace Hanna's 2024 short of the same name.

Lola (song)

"Lola" is a 1970 song by the English rock band The Kinks, written by Ray Davies, about a meeting with a gender-nonconforming woman in a Soho club.

Lola Albright

Lola Albright (Lola Jean Albright, 1924–2017), American actress and singer, born Akron, Ohio. Best known as Edie Hart on Peter Gunn (1958–61), Champion (1949), and 1966 Berlin Best Actress for Lord Love a Duck.

Lola Álvarez Bravo

Lola Álvarez Bravo, born Dolores Martínez de Anda, was a Mexican photographer considered Mexico's first woman photographer, known for documentary images of Mexico and pioneering photomontage.

Lola Anderson

Lola Anderson (Lola Estelle Bliss Anderson, born 1998) is a British rower, Leander Club captain, and MBE who won Paris 2024 Olympic gold in the women's quadruple sculls, Britain's first in that boat class, after the 2023 world title.