Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
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ˈɡuːɡəl
Verb
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”).
Usage- Transitive
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Usage- Intransitive
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
Usage- Intransitive
Noun
An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
Usage- Internet
- Informal
- Examples
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Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
Usage- Internet
- Dated
- Informal
- Synonyms
- Google hitghit
- Examples
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The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Verb
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
Usage- Internet
- Informal
- Transitive
- Examples
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Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
Have fun and keep googling!
More examples (3)
Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine.
Google it.
Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]
To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
Usage- Internet
- broadly
- Informal
- Transitive
- Examples
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I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
Usage- Internet
- Informal
- Intransitive
- Examples
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His name googles.
Verb
search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
- Examples
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He googled the woman he had met at the party
My children are googling all day