google

Noun

1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
   • Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood. - 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:
2. A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
   • The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

   Synonyms: Google hit ghit

   Hypernyms: hit result

Numeral

1. Misspelling of googol.

Verb ball games, cricket

1. 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.

Verb ball games, cricket

1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
   • Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
   • Have fun and keep googling! - 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 09 Oct 1999:
   • Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine. - 2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg...
2. To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
   • I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
3. To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
   • His name googles.

Wikipedia

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