Dictionary

Googler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡu.ɡ(ə).lɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈɡuː.ɡ(ə).lə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Partly Google + -er (occupational suffix), partly + -er (agent noun suffix).

Meanings

1. A full-time Google corporation employee.
   • Over at Google, a company known to have pioneered the modern tech workplace, one designer complained of spending 40 percent of their time on “the inefficien[cy] overhead of simply working at Google.” Some report spending all day on tasks as simple as changing the color of a website button. Working the bare minimum while waiting for stock to vest is so common that Googlers call it “resting and vesting.” 2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler:
2. A regular or habitual user of the Google search engine.
   • Of course, the more committed Googlers in this class probably already knew the deal between Howard and the celebrity Kipps. 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 156:
3. A device used to regularly access the Google search engine.

Forms

Deriveds

Xoogler · Zoogler · Gaygler · Noogler · Greygler

Relateds

google