glom

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (informal) To take.
2. (informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
3. (informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.

Noun

Short for glomerulus.

Synoniemen

snitch

knock off

hook

🪝

thieve

cop

👮

steal

swipe

walk off

grab

lift

nobble

seize

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡlɒm/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.