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GLOM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: glommed    , glomming   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seize upon or latch onto something

Example:

The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "glom" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take by theft

Example:

Someone snitched my wallet!

Synonyms:

cop; glom; hook; knock off; snitch; thieve

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "glom" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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