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google up

B2 informal separable transitive
In simple words

To look something up on Google or the internet.

Meanings

1 B2 informal

To find information by searching for it online, especially using Google.

"I'll google up the opening times for the museum."

Grammar: separable
Usage notes

Informal and relatively recent in usage. 'Google' alone is already used as a verb, so 'google up' adds a slightly more emphatic sense of actively finding and retrieving something specific. More common in informal spoken contexts. Not appropriate in formal writing.

Commonly used with

address recipe answer symptoms directions information

Forms

Base
google up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
googles up
he/she/it
Past simple
googled up
yesterday
Past participle
googled up
have + pp
-ing form
googling up
continuous

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