/verb [with object]
Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google: on Sunday she googled an ex-boyfriend [no object]: I googled for a cheap hotel/flight deal...
- You were the crush I've never forgotten and since the Internet has arrived, I've even googled your name Tim, but where would I begin.
- And this is the kind of thing I don't need coming up under my full name when I'm googled.
- You've probably also heard me talk about how much I wanted to find him - how long I've been searching, googling him all the time and never finding anything.
Derivatives
googleable
- I guess I am always aware that what I write here is easily googleable.
- I don't mind if the archives are googleable to the outside world.
- I'm a kid and don't want everything to be permanently googleable.
Origin
1990s: from Google, the proprietary name of the search engine.
Rhymes
- mixed
- mixed-ability
- mixed bag
- mixed bed
- mixed bill
- mixed blessing
- mixed blood
- mixed border
- mixed-breed
- mixed bunch
- mixed business
- mixed cadence
- mixed-celled
- mixed chalice
- mixed cloth
- mixed company
- mixed contract
- mixed corn
- mixed crystal
- mixed doubles
- mixed drink
- mixed economy
- mixed ether
- mixed farming
- mixed feeding