Googlenope

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English

Noun

Googlenope (plural Googlenopes)

  1. A phrase that returns no results when entered between quotes into Google.
    • 2007, Gene Weingarten, "Zero-Based Journalism", The Washington Post, 27 May 2007: When a phrase cannot be found on Google, I call it a Googlenope. Once a Googlenope is discovered and written about, it is no longer a Googlenope.
    • 2007, Emma Cowing, "Time to acknowledge 'No' really means 'No'", The Scotsman, 14 August 2007: Amusingly, googlenope was itself a googlenope, until some bright spark - the writer Gene Weingarten - came up with the word.
    • 2009, "Leave nothing unsaid", The Hindu, 4 July 2009: Gene had many Googlenopes on that day: Queen Elizabeth’s buttocks; I believe dust mites have souls;
    • 2012, Michael Kesterton, "Googlenopes - phrases that return no results - celebrate the unlikely", The Globe and Mail, 22 November 2010: Invented by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, googlenopes such as "Laura Bush's secret tattoo" and "The sensual feel of the speculum" are celebrations of the unlikely.