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noun
Clipping of glomerulus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Acronym of girls living off men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, attributive, neologism, rare, sometimes
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verb
To take.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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verb
To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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verb
Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, intransitive
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verb
seize upon or latch onto something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: get, acquire
verb
take by theft
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: steal
History
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.
Variant of glaum, gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”).
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
