glom on

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

glom on (third-person singular simple present gloms on, present participle glomming on, simple past and past participle glommed on)

1. (intransitive, slang) To attach oneself to something.
   • 2016 October 8, Sally Adee, “It’s just common sense”, in New Scientist‎, number 3094, page 22:

     But as Siri’s many noted missteps attest, a computer really has no idea what you’re talking about. It breaks your speech down, gloms on to keywords and makes a good guess at what you’re asking.

2. (intransitive) To comprehend something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• (understand): cotton on

• glom onto

• Mongol, mongol