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glom on

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. To comprehend something.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for glom on. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA