glom
- v take by theft
- v seize upon or latch onto something
The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater
- When regulators dismembered Ma Bell in 1984, they didn't predict that its seven pieces would glom back into three by 2006.
- More like strained, this tedious, stiffly acted remake tried to glom onto the zeitgeist with a trendy environmental conspiracy plot, but it simply blew greenhouse gas.
- Iron plays a very important part in the reactions in our cells that produce damaging free radicals, which glom onto cell membranes and DNA, and may translate into aging the cell.