Synonyms of the word glom


GLOMACQUIRE - COP - GET - HOOK - SNITCH - STEAL - THIEVE

glom

  • v. (transitive, informal) To steal, to grab.
  • v. (intransitive) To stare.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To attach.

acquire

  • v. (transitive) To get.
  • v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
  • v. (medicine) To contract.
  • v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

cop

  • n. (obsolete) A spider.
  • v. (transitive, formerly dialect, now informal) to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to…
  • v. (transitive) to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment…
  • v. (transitive, trainspotting, slang) to see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
  • v. (transitive) to steal.
  • v. (transitive) to adopt.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with "to", slang) to admit, especially to a crime.
  • n. (slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.
  • n. (crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
  • n. (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.
  • n. (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.
  • n. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
  • n. (architecture, military) A merlon.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

hook

  • n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
  • n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
  • n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  • n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
  • n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  • n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
  • n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  • n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
  • n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  • n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  • n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
  • n. (baseball) A curveball.
  • n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
  • n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
  • n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
  • n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
  • n. (typography, rare) A háček.
  • n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
  • n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
  • n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
  • n. A snare; a trap.
  • n. A field sown two years in succession.
  • n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  • n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
  • v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
  • v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  • v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  • v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  • v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
  • v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
  • v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
  • v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
  • v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
  • v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
  • v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
  • v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
  • v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  • v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
  • v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

snitch

  • v. (transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
  • v. (transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
  • v. (slang, transitive) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
  • n. A thief.
  • n. An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
  • n. (Britain) A nose.
  • n. A tiny morsel.

steal

  • v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
  • v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
  • v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
  • v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
  • v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
  • v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
  • v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
  • v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
  • n. The act of stealing.
  • n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
  • n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
  • n. (baseball) A stolen base.
  • n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
  • n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

thieve

  • v. (intransitive) To commit theft.

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