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How to pronounce google
Say it like this: /ˈɡuɡəl/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does google mean?
verbTo 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”).
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
nounAn Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
“Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.”
A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
“The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.”
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