Meaning

(transitive) 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”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) 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”).
2. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
3. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
4. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
5. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
6. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
7. To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
8. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

Example Sentences

Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Have fun and keep googling!

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: […]

I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.

Word Forms

• googles
• googling
• googled
• Google

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When Should You Use Google?

Use google when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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