glom on

Verb

glom on (third-person singular simple present gloms on, present participle glomming on, simple past and past participle glommed on)

1. (intransitive, slang) To attach oneself to something.
   • But as Siri’s many noted missteps attest, a computer really has no idea what you’re talking about. It breaks your speech down, gloms on to keywords and makes a good guess at what you’re asking.2016 October 8, Sally Adee, “It’s just common sense”, in New Scientist, number 3094, page 22
2. (intransitive) To comprehend something.
   • Engineers began to glom on to the idea that properly laid crushed rock, interlocked in a particular way at the base of a road, could do much of what the metal reinforcement did — namely hold the structural integrity of the roadway but at a lower overall cost.2015 October 10, Dan Lett, “Building great roads poses great challenge. Can science, planning finally trump Mother Nature, financial pressures?”, in The Free Press (Winnipeg)

   Synonyms:

   cotton on