googlewhack

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English

Etymology

From Google +‎ whack. Coined by Gary Stock on 8 January 2002.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

googlewhack (plural googlewhacks)

  1. (Internet) A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
    Hypernym: ghit

Verb

googlewhack (third-person singular simple present googlewhacks, present participle googlewhacking, simple past and past participle googlewhacked)

  1. (Internet, transitive, rare) To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit.

See also

References

  1. ^ Charles Arthur (2002 February 4) “Who can whack a Google on the Web?”, in The Independent

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