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ghit

/ˈɡɪt/US/ˈɡɪt/

ghit is the contraction of Google.

Meaning of Google

Proper noun

Google

  1. (trademark) 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).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. (trademark) Google Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name.
    • He did some research on Google for his history project.

See all 10 meanings of google

Forms of ghit

pluralghits

Origin of ghit

Contraction of Google + hit. Coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl. See the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

Words that rhyme with ghit

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Questions about ghit

What is ghit the contraction of?
Ghit is the contraction of Google.
How do you pronounce ghit?
Ghit is pronounced /ˈɡɪt/ (UK).

Words near ghit in the dictionary

  1. ghira
  2. Ghirardelli
  3. ghirsh
  4. ghis
  5. Ghislaine
  6. ghit
  7. ghits
  8. ghittern
  9. ghitterns
  10. ghiya
  11. Ghizer District

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghit (page history and authors); Google (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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