glom
/ɡlɒm/
glom verb: to take. Also the alternative form of glaum.
Verb
glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)
- To take.
- 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,[…]2013 October 18, Thom Thomas, ...Give or Take a Shilling.: Discovery, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 380
- 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.2014 August 14, Robert Leslie Bellem, Coffin for a Coward, eStar Books, →ISBN
- To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
- 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.2008 December 31, Merritt Abrash, Things in Heaven and Earth, Author House, →ISBN, page 274
- 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.2010 August 1, Linda O. Johnston, Not a Moment Too Soon, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 98
- To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
- “The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”2000, Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth, page 17
- Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem[…]2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books, →ISBN
Noun capitalized: GLOM
GLOM
- Acronym of girls living off men.
Also used as
glom is also the alternative form of glaum.
glom is also the clipping of glomerulus.
Examples of glom in a sentence
- Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.2019 June 4, James Ellroy, The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz; Introduction by Tom Nolan...
- Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.2014 May 28, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, “After 15 Years Of Lesbianism, I'm Dating Men And I Have No Idea What I'm Doing”, in XOJane, archived...
Forms of glom
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gloms |
| present participle | glomming |
| past participle | glommed |
| past | glommed |
| alternative form | glomb |
| alternative form | glomp |
| Noun | |
| plural | gloms |
Origin of glom
From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp.
Variant of glaum, gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”).
Words formed from glom
Words that rhyme with glom
Questions about glom
- What does glom mean?
- Glom means to take.
- How do you use glom in a sentence?
- Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.
- What part of speech is glom?
- Glom can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce glom?
- Glom is pronounced /ɡlɒm/.
- What is the past tense of glom?
- The past tense of glom is glommed.
Words near glom in the dictionary
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