Usually means: Adhere or stick to something.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. glom: Merriam-Webster
  2. glom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glom, glom: Wordnik
  7. glom: Wiktionary
  8. glom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glom: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. glom: Dictionary.com
  11. glom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Glom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. glom: Rhymezone
  14. glom: FreeDictionary.org
  15. glom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. glom: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. glom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glom-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glom: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. glom, glom, glom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GLOM, glom: Urban Dictionary
  4. Glom: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See gloming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, informal) To take.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
verb:  (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”). [(Scotland, Ireland) To grasp or snatch (at), usually feebly or ineffectually; to grope (at) with the hands, as in the dark.]
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus. [(anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine]
noun:  (neologism, rare, sometimes used attributively) Acronym of girls living off men.

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