Meaning

(transitive, informal) To take..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, informal) To take.
2. (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
3. (intransitive, informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
4. (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”).
5. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of glomerulus.

Example Sentences

Mac glommed a handful of Bott's hair and ear and twisted it, “Ya be listenin' ta me now that I 'ave yer attention. And ifin ya don't, I'll be obliged ta hack off yer pretty little ear wif me blade. Would ya like that, Mr. Mouth,[…]

As soon as I was alone I glommed a quick gander into the bedroom, saw the Bonham punk was resting quietly under the covers. I withdrew, made myself cozy in an easy chair, began burning gaspers and reading magazines.

Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.

Winslow glommed at once onto the benefits of such an arrangement. “So I would set the terms, conditions, and whatever fee I chose to pay myself?” “You catch on quick!” said the cuddly clerk impishly.

known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.

Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.

In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.

“The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”

Word Forms

• gloms
• glomming
• glommed
• glomb
• glomp

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Use glom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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