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)
verb (used with object)
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
But only a few of these new Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters carry the night goggle technology — and pilots must be specially trained because it’s difficult to master.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
It has SteelSeries’ signature ski goggle headband that suspends its weight without pressing down.
From The Verge ● Nov. 16, 2021
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
His eyes were the size of tennis balls behind his goggle glasses.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
"It was for the last major tournament when I didn't score," McGinn told ITV Sport, when asked for the meaning behind the goggles.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
With support from his friends and his mother, who offers him goggles and a pair of orange arm floaties, JJ decides to face his fears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
All are clad from head to toe in hazard suits with facemasks and goggles, to guard against a disease spread through close physical contact and bodily fluids.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
"We used to destroy them," Granados told AFP, his body half-submerged in the sea and diving goggles concealing his face.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
If we were supposed to be out in the dark, Kenny Halverson’s uncle said, we’d be born with night-vision goggles on our heads.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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
I took a walk this morning under cold, clear skies on mostly deserted streets, and goggled appreciatively at some puffed-up sparrows shimmying in a birdbath beneath sprays of gaudy yellow forsythia.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
Powell jumped at Donovan’s wild shout, and his eyes followed the redhead’s to the visiplate, when they goggled in fixed horror.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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
We’ve been spending the last 24 hours goggling over the trailer for Cats, and it’s just, like … why.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019
Bevin “was visibly a bruiser with a bull neck and loud voice. He was squat at 240 pounds with putty-lump features and a goggling stare that gave him an aura of menace.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
You had to allow a moment for simple goggling before you could settle down to pay attention to what they were actually saying.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2013
And someone was goggling through the bars at him: a freckle-faced, red-haired, long-nosed someone.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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