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googly

[goo-glee] / ˈgu gli /


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Kurata also did the ensembles for the Oscar-nominated “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with its wardrobe of googly eyes and Elvis jumpsuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

An Australian teenager has faced court for allegedly defacing a large blue sculpture of a mythical creature by sticking googly eyes on it.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Otto stomped back to the bike, while Sheed made his final googly eyes.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."

From BBC ● May 31, 2023

Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022

It's hard, well hard, serving us a diet of beamers, googlies and curve balls while we try and guard our stumps with a mivvi.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013

Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011

There is often a certain looseness about the attack after lunch, and the bowler of googlies took advantage of it now. 

From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse


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