google

verb

1. 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. 2

   Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.

3. 3

   Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

noun

1. 1

   informalAn 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.

2. 2

   datedA 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.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

   Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

   Have fun and keep googling!

   Willow: Have you googled her yet? Xander: Willow! She's 17! Willow: It's a search engine.

   Google it.

2. 2

   informalTo 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. 3

   informalTo be locatable in a search of the Internet.

   His name googles.

numeral

1. 1

   Variant of googolinformalMisspelling of googol.

Forms

plural

googles

past tense

googled

past participle

googled

present participle

googling

third person singular

googles