Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Google is a verb meaning Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Meaning
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
More Meanings
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- (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”).
- (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
Example Sentences
Have fun and keep googling!
Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Word Forms
- googles
- googling
- googled
Synonyms for google
Depending on context, synonyms include ghit.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include valley, oogle, google-bomb, goop, glob, gaum.
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