Googler
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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.”"
- 2 Alternative form of Googler. alt-of, alternative
- 3 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."
- 4 A device used to regularly access the Google search engine.
Example
More examples"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.”"
Etymology
Partly Google + -er (occupational suffix), partly + -er (agent noun suffix).
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