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glom

UK/ɡlɒm/ uncommon informal rare

verb

1.

take by theft

  • “Someone snitched my wallet!”
Synonyms
2.

seize upon or latch onto something

  • “The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater”

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • glom on
  • glom onto

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