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In some senses, google is marked as informal, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
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”).
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
noun
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.
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.
verb
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
Have fun and keep googling!
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.
To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
His name googles.