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googled

googled is the simple past and past participle of google.

Meaning of google

Verb (1)

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

  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.

Verb (2)

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

  1. (Internet, informal, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
    • Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
  2. (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.
  3. (Internet, informal, intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
    • His name googles.

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Verb capitalized: Googled

Googled

  1. (participle, past) simple past and past participle of Google

Phrases with googled

Questions about googled

What is googled the simple past and past participle of?
Googled is the simple past and past participle of google.
What part of speech is googled?
Googled is a verb.

Words near googled in the dictionary

  1. googleable
  2. googlebomb
  3. googlebombed
  4. googlebombing
  5. googlebombs
  6. googled
  7. googled up
  8. Googledebunk
  9. Googleing
  10. Googleitis
  11. Googlemania

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Adapted from Wiktionary: googled (page history and authors); Googled (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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