googlenope

plural googlenopes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Googlenope.

   Amusingly, googlenope was itself a googlenope, until some bright spark - the writer Gene Weingarten - came up with the word.

   2007 August 14, Emma Cowing, “Time to acknowledge 'No' really means 'No'”, in The Scotsman

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   Invented by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, googlenopes such as "Laura Bush's secret tattoo" and "The sensual feel of the speculum" are celebrations of the unlikely.

   2010 November 22, Michael Kesterton, “Googlenopes - phrases that return no results - celebrate the unlikely”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025

plural Googlenopes · alternative googlenope

1. InternetneologismA phrase that returns no results when entered between quotes into Google.

   Gene had many Googlenopes on that day: Queen Elizabeth’s buttocks; I believe dust mites have souls; […]

   2009 July 4, “Leave nothing unsaid”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2021

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   When a phrase cannot be found on Google, I call it a Googlenope. Once a Googlenope is discovered and written about, it is no longer a Googlenope.

   2007 May 27, Gene Weingarten, “Zero-Based Journalism”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2015

   Amusingly, googlenope was itself a googlenope, until some bright spark - the writer Gene Weingarten - came up with the word.

   2007 August 14, Emma Cowing, “Time to acknowledge 'No' really means 'No'”, in The Scotsman

   Invented by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, googlenopes such as "Laura Bush's secret tattoo" and "The sensual feel of the speculum" are celebrations of the unlikely.

   2010 November 22, Michael Kesterton, “Googlenopes - phrases that return no results - celebrate the unlikely”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025