google

present singular third person googles · participle present googling · participle past googled · past googled

1. transitiveball gamesTo 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. intransitiveball gamesOf a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
3. intransitiveball gamesOf a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

plural googles · alternative Google

1. Internetinformalball gamesAn 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. Internetdatedinformalball gamesA 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

present singular third person googles · participle present googling · participle past googled · past googled · alternative Google

1. Internetinformaltransitiveball gamesTo search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

   Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

   4 more examples

   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 and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon)

   Google it.

   2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez)

   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: […]

   2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021, page A-19

2. Internetbroadlyinformaltransitiveball gamesTo 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. Internetinformalintransitiveball gamesTo be locatable in a search of the Internet.

   His name googles.

1. Internetinformalmisspellingball gamesMisspelling of googol.

1. trademarkA particular Internet company.

   Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

   2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2022

2. trademarkcomputingGoogle Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name.

   He did some research on Google for his history project.

   1 more example

   As a house officer you think your registrar is unimpeachably correct and clever, like God maybe, or Google, and you try not to bother them under almost any circumstance.

   2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

present singular third person Googles · participle present Googling · participle present Googleing · participle present Google-ing · participle past Googled · past Googled

1. Alternative letter-case form of google.

   I did quite a bit of research by Google-ing a lot of the costume websites.

   2008, Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, quoting Anne Timmons, “Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel”, in The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, New York, N.Y.; London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 92, column 1

   5 more examples

   Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.

   2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2

   Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.

   2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33

   I watched as she Googled, Yahooed, Asked, and used a couple of search engines I’d never heard of.

   2007, Linda O. Johnston, The Fright of the Iguana, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 29

   Trying to be helpful, he told Lenzin that he could get most of the information by Googleing Ashley.

   2008, Jerry Langton, Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., →ISBN, page 133

   We are not super-tech-savvy people because we would have Googled, I suspect, but we Yahooed, and the top 10 sites were pornographic.

   2008 July 16, David Gratzer, “Statement of David Gratzer, M.D., Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research”, in Getting Better Value in Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget House of Representatives; […] (Serial No. 110–37), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23