Pronunce (2)
-
/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
-
ˈɡuːɡəl
Verbo
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”).
Uso- transitivo
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Uso- intransitivo
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
Uso- intransitivo
Sostantivo
An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
Uso- Internet
- informale
- Esempi
-
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.
Uso- Internet
- datato
- informale
- Sinonimi
- Google hitghit
- Esempi
-
The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Verbo
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
Uso- Internet
- informale
- transitivo
- Esempi
-
Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
Have fun and keep googling!
Altri esempi (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.
Uso- Internet
- broadly
- informale
- transitivo
- Esempi
-
I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
Uso- Internet
- informale
- intransitivo
- Esempi
-
His name googles.
Verbo
search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
- Esempi
-
He googled the woman he had met at the party
My children are googling all day