Sekirov Dictionary

google

/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

verb 6
noun 2
forms 8
phrases 1

verb6

•
(Internet) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
•
(Internet) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
•
(Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- His name googles.

noun2

•
(Internet, informal) An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
- Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood. — 2023
•
(informal, old-fashioned) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
- The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

forms

Googled · googled · Google-ing · Googleing · Googling · googling · Googles · googles

Phrases with google

google up
To search for or find information using Google or another search engine.

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