RL

RL

1. Initialism of Republic of Lebanon.

RL (countable and uncountable, plural RLs)

1. Initialism of rugby league.
2. (Internet slang, uncountable) Initialism of real life.
   • 1997, Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, London: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, LCCN 9668813, page 138:

     I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like.

• IRL
• OOC

• LR