goggle
Americannoun
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goggles,
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large spectacles equipped with special lenses, protective rims, etc., to prevent injury to the eyes from strong wind, flying objects, blinding light, etc.
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spectacles designed for a special purpose, as night-vision or stereoscopic goggles.
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Informal. glasses, or eyeglasses.
I can't see a thing without my goggles.
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a bulging or wide-open look of the eyes; stare.
verb (used without object)
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goggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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goggled,
past participle, past
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goggling
present participle
verb (used with object)
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goggles,
present (3rd person singular)
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goggled,
past participle, past
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goggling
present participle
adjective
verb
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(intr) to stare stupidly or fixedly, as in astonishment
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to cause (the eyes) to roll or bulge or (of the eyes) to roll or bulge
noun
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a fixed or bulging stare
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(plural) spectacles, often of coloured glass or covered with gauze: used to protect the eyes
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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gogglesimple
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gogglessimple
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have goggledperfect
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has goggledperfect
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am gogglingprogressive
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are gogglingprogressive
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is gogglingprogressive
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have been gogglingperfect progressive
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has been gogglingperfect progressive
Past
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goggledsimple
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had goggledperfect
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was gogglingprogressive
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were gogglingprogressive
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had been gogglingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of goggle
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English gogelen “to look aside, squint”
Explanation
When you goggle, you stare with wide-open bug eyes. You might goggle at a monkey riding a unicycle down the main street of your town. You may have heard of goggles — those large, plastic glasses that you use to protect your eyes while you are skiing or using a blowtorch. You might look like you are wearing goggles when you goggle at something. If you are looking for a new way to say "What are you looking at?!" Try: "What are you goggling at?!"
Vocabulary lists containing goggle
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Example Sentences
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I asked as I breezed through the door, my cheeks a golden tan from the goggle line down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The Tactical edition is “popular with military personnel” and has features such as stealth mode and night vision goggle compatibility.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2022
Sporting high-cut helmets with night-vision goggle mounts, plate carriers and U.S. camouflage patterns, the guards looked like caricatures of the elite troops who have hunted insurgents in nightly raids and firefights.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Since 2003 the United States has provided Afghan forces with at least 600,000 infantry weapons including M16 assault rifles, 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and 16,000 night-vision goggle devices.
From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2021
Andrew Peckleman, the boy with the Olympic-sized goggle glasses who worked at the motel, came into the lobby when she was about halfway done.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
And you shouldn't be tempted to try using sunglasses or dark goggles instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He needs to wear special eyewear — usually goggles or glasses — to control the beams of energy that blast from his eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"But please send things that are more necessary. Yes, food is necessary, but if you see fans, masks, goggles, these are also very important right now."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
All you need is a swimsuit, cap and goggles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“So, Connor,” Dad said, removing his ridiculous goggles, “what are you interested in? I mean besides pulling morbid pranks with my daughter and scaring our visitors away.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
Tourists and Parisians goggled at the sight of the French capital's oldest bridge transformed into a giant "cave" on Thursday, a spectacular new public work by the street artist JR.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
There was a whole wall of car parts lit up in pink that I goggled at for a minute.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
Moments before launching some 20 feet skyward, his goggled eyes are fixed straight ahead.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
Inside, I goggled alongside the tourists at classic works of Western art sitting alongside Chinese and Indian and Arab masterpieces.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
Van Eck goggled at Wylan, searching for some sign of his son’s features.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Twitter lent itself to appreciating great TV and to goggling at trash; it was equally a vehicle for “Isn’t this amazing?” and “What the hell are we watching?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
And of course this made for yet more must-see, silent, slack-jawed, public goggling.
From Slate ● May 27, 2020
All of us New Yorkers stopped dead, goggling at plates that held individual molds of red Jell-O topped with a dab of something too yellow to be Cool Whip.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
These would fade away little by little, and the giggling denigrations would be replaced by goggling admirations, a slow fade-up that might not be noticed if it weren’t part of the eternal foster cycle.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2010
“But you have been misleading me, young woman!” said Xenophilius, now sitting up much straighter in his chair and goggling at Hermione.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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