google

verb

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.”

   “Have fun and keep googling!”

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

   “Google it.”

   “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: […]”

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.”

7. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of google.

   “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.”

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

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

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

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

noun

1. (Internet, informal)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.”

2. (Internet, dated, informal)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.”

num

1. (Internet, alt-of, informal, misspelling)Misspelling of googol.

name

1. A 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).”

2. Google Search, a search engine operated by the company of the same name; the most popular search engine and most-visited website worldwide.

   “He did some research on Google for his history project.”

   “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.”