Meaning

6 senses
  1. (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”).

  2. (intransitive)Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.

  3. (intransitive)Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

  4. (Internet, informal, transitive)To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

    Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

    googeln, googlen

    гу́глитьgúglitʹ, загу́глитьzagúglitʹ, погу́глитьpogúglitʹ

    ґу́ґлитиgúglyty, заґу́ґлитиzagúglyty, наґу́ґлитиnagúglyty

    search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine

  5. (Internet, broadly, informal, transitive)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.

  6. (Internet, informal, intransitive)To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

    His name googles.

Examples

268 sentences
  1. I can just google it.

    Я просто заґуґлю.

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  2. I googled how to do that.

    Я нагуглив, як це зробити.

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  3. Have you googled Tom?

    Ти гуглив Тома?

    ruТы Тома в Гугле искал?

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  4. I google myself all the time.

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  5. I told Tom to google it.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine:
Русский
to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine:
Deutsch
to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine:

Origin

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

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Forms

googles, googling, googled, googled
Base formgoogle · to google
3rd person singulargoogles
Present participlegoogling
Past simplegoogled
Past participlegoogled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygoogle
he, she, itgoogles

Past simpleLesson

all personsgoogled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave googled
he, she, ithas googled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill google

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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