googling

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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