googlev.1
/ˈɡuːɡ(ə)l/ Cricket.
intransitive. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (transitive), to give a googly break to (a ball).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball
to make haste?a1475
twist?1801
cut1816
shoot1816
curl1833
hang1838
work1838
break1847
spin1851
turn1851
bump1856
bite1867
pop1871
swerve1894
to kick up1895
nip1899
swing1900
google1907
move1938
seam1960
to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961
1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having ‘googled’ to no purpose from the ‘nursery’ end.
1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also ‘googled’.
1930 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it.
Derivatives
ˈgoogler n. a googly bowler.
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1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
Googlev.2
/ˈɡuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈɡuɡ(ə)l/ 1. intransitive. To use the Google search engine to find information on the internet.
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1998 L. Page New Features in eGroups (Electronic mailing list) 8 July Have fun and keep googling!
1999 Re: Hi Guys! in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct. Has anyone Googled? www.google.com Ver ver [sic] clean and fast.
2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 Sept. (Seven Days section) 7/3 You can google all you want and there's nothing there on them.
2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 14 June 49/2 The couple found themselves Googling for a new place to live.
2007 Church Times 14 Dec. 25/3 I did find, when Googling around, that the second reference to the story was from an Islamic website.
2. transitive. To enter (a search term) into the Google search engine to find information on the internet; to search for information about (a person or thing) in this way.
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2000 Re: $Emergency_Number in NYC in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Jan. I've googled some keywords, and it came up with some other .edu text.
2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. iii. 12/3 I met this woman last night at a party and I came right home and googled her.
2005 ‘Belle De Jour’ Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 115 Obsessing over the details, including Googling his name every few hours? Too right I did.
2010 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 29/5 Googling ‘breast pain’ came up with eight million.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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