glom

Pronunciation: /ɡlɒm/

The English word “glom” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

To take.
To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.

Etymology

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.

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