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grock

grock is the alternative spelling of grok.

Meaning of grok

Verb

grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking or groking, simple past and past participle grokked or groked)

  1. (slang, transitive) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
    • I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 106
  2. (slang, transitive) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
    • I finally grok Perl.

Forms of grock

third-person singular presentgrocks
present participlegrocking
past participlegrocked
pastgrocked

Questions about grock

What is grock the alternative spelling of?
Grock is the alternative spelling of grok.

Words near grock in the dictionary

  1. Groces
  2. groceteria
  3. groceterias
  4. Grochowski
  5. Grochowskis
  6. grock
  7. grocked
  8. grockel
  9. grockels
  10. grocking
  11. grockle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grock (page history and authors); grok (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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