ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Google

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

  1. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
  2. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
  3. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
  4. To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
  5. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
  6. (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”).
  7. (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

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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