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Googley en · ADJ

Etymology

From Google + -y.

Meanings

  1. (slang) Characteristic of Google, especially in reference to its company culture.
    • Even as an intern, I was allowed to treat two guests a month to the free food and facilities. No one really cared if you went over; it was an honour system in which everyone was expected to be appropriately Googley. 2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:
    • […] emerging as a leader to whom others look for advice on what is “Googley.” 2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 53:
    • In a book on management, Laszlo Bock, Google's longtime HR boss, wrote that the company hired for “Googley” traits: humility, conscientiousness, and “comfort with ambiguity.” Being willing to plunge down a slide at work without shame—that's Googley. Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.” 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:

Forms

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most Googley Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Googley Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

Googliness

Synonyms

Googlish