Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A chemical symbol of glucinum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The ISO 639 alpha-2 language code for Galician.
  • noun text messaging good luck

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Examples

  • Google's Url-shortener service, Goo. gl is released to the public and allows for easy creation of QR codes for shortened urls.

    Daily Dispatch: Facebook improves photo features; Apple said to be testing touchscreen iMac 2010

  • But my real reason for avoiding goo. gl is this: I feel like I already use more than enough Google services.

    Faster Forward: Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • But my real reason for avoiding goo. gl is this: I feel like I already use more than enough Google services.

    Short review of Google's goo.gl address shortener Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • I have previously given the Akismet Wordpress plugin gl [...]

    2006 April | Evil Genius Chronicles 2006

  • And I'm pretty sure that ending a name in "gl" makes absolutely no f***ing sense. nunaurbiz

    The Ugly Truth Movie Poster | /Film 2008

  • But much more requisite is it for Gentlemen in gl service of their country at home or abroad, in town or country, Especially those that serve in parliament to know and jnform themselves ye nature of Land, ye Genius of the Inhabitants, so as to promote and improve Manufacture and trade suitable to each and encourage all projects tending thereto, putting in practice all Laws made for each particular good, maintaining their priviledges, procuring more as requisite; but to their shame it must be own'd many if not most are Ignorant of anything but the name of the place for which they serve in parliament; how then can they speake for or promote their good or Redress their Grievances?

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • Outside of Scandinavia, the Germans make a variation called glühwein (glow wine), often with a white wine base, and in Ireland it is made with (what else?)

    Meathead Goldwyn: Believe In Glögg: All You Need To Know About Mulled Wine Meathead Goldwyn 2011

  • Outside of Scandinavia, the Germans make a variation called glühwein (glow wine), often with a white wine base, and in Ireland it is made with (what else?)

    Meathead Goldwyn: Believe In Glögg: All You Need To Know About Mulled Wine Meathead Goldwyn 2011

  • Pontaven is celebrated for the quantity of its salmon: so much is taken, that it used to be said that the millers fattened their pigs upon this fish, which was literally true, as they took the small salmon, called glésils, in nets (_poches_) for that purpose.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • No wonder that Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians are especially adept at getting through long and dark winters, helped, in part by traditional mulled wine, called glögg and glöggi.

    BlogHer 2008

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