Definition of "glom"
glom1
verb
third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed
(transitive, informal) To take.
Quotations
Mac glommed a handful of Bott's hair and ear and twisted it, “Ya be listenin' ta me now that I 'ave yer attention. And ifin ya don't, I'll be obliged ta hack off yer pretty little ear wif me blade. Would ya like that, Mr. Mouth, […]
2013 October 18, Thom Thomas, ...Give or Take a Shilling.: Discovery, Xlibris Corporation, page 380
Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.
2019 June 4, James Ellroy, The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz; Introduction by Tom Nolan, Everyman's Library, page 499
(intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
Quotations
known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.
2010 August 1, Linda O. Johnston, Not a Moment Too Soon, Silhouette, page 98
In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.
2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 217
(intransitive, informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
Quotations
Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem […]
2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books
The following day when Fiona had gone to pour the poteen into a smaller bottle so that she could use the bigger one to store cooking oil, nearly a half a dozen undissolved aspirin tablets were glommed at the bottom of the bottle.
2013 November 11, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, The Irish End Games, Books 1-3, Susan Kiernan-Lewis
glom2
verb
third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed
(intransitive) Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”).
Quotations
Its black, withered-up, pinholes for eyes glommed at little Isabel. And with great anticipation it began to speak. “Why Gelp, that's a fine fat little one you have there. You always find the good ones. Are you on your way to market […]"
2015 April 14, A.K. Ashic, Book One of Weird and Wacky Tales & Other Such Nonsense, Lulu Press, Inc
I apologized for disturbing her and said I would deeply appreciate it if she would let me take a picture of a painting […] It would have been a pleasure, and also instructive, to do a little glomming at the rugs and furniture and other miscellaneous objects, especially the dozen or more pictures on the walls, but that would have to wait.
1994 September 1, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, Crimeline, page 190
[…] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)
2021 December 3, Jiří Kratochvil, The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties, Glagoslav Publications
glom3
noun
plural gloms
(medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.