glommed

glom (someone or something)

1. To steal something. That guy looks suspicious—I bet he's gonna try to glom something from the store.
2. To look at someone or something. We all glommed the rock star as he made his way through the crowd.
3. To arrest someone. After trying to glom these guys for months, we were finally able to bring them into the station tonight.
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glommed

slang Arrested. Dude, I hear sirens—we're gonna get glommed if we stay here any longer!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

glommed

(glɑmd)
mod. arrested. (Underworld.) Wilmer got glommed on a speeding charge. I didn’t even know he could drive.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a whack at (something)
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a crack at (someone or something)
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"It's funny to me that little girls have glommed on to the show so much.
When the media glommed onto that fact, Piper was off on a whirlwind that included an appearance on Good Morning America and nationwide newspaper coverage.
Now that Clinton has glommed onto the national conversation, it won't just dissipate through the airwaves over time.
Thus far, it's been as an after-market process - no major manufacturer has glommed onto it, yet.
Using this lattice light-sheet microscope, the scientists were able to watch as a cancer cell navigated through a sticky thicket of protein and as an immune cell (shown in orange) stretched out and glommed on to another cell (blue-green).
Many critics glommed onto new shows with "Comedy's back" abandon, enthusing over half-hours like "Enlisted," "The Crazy Ones," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "About a Boy."
Overeager headline writers glommed onto the data points and made it sound as if these numbers pointed to some sort of impending brown supremacy -- ''As Demographics Change, So Does the Menu.''
Each artifact hosted a parasite that glommed onto its surface, evoking a tumor or a tick before any form of assemblage blessed with an art-historical pedigree.
After just a few hours, nearly all the cells in the solution had glommed onto the coating.
Yet many of those 30 million paid subscribers are kids who have glommed on to texting with a remarkable resilience.
Parris Glendening, who pushed through the country's first avowed "smart growth" bill in 1997, has glommed onto the idea.
After many months, a $50,000 six-month option was finally negotiated through producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and Picker glommed onto the deal, then considered exorbitant.
Just because a cadre of bloggers, policy wonks and headline writers glommed on to the idea that the sole purpose of making nutrition information readily available to consumers is to dissuade them from eating doesn't mean the information isn't important.
They discovered that zinc sulfide nanoparticles "were being scooped up and glommed together into spheroids," he says.
Based on the way women in particular have glommed onto the bodice-caressing aspects of such fare (consider the torch a dedicated few are still carrying for CBS' "Moonlight"), HBO figures to have a cult hit on its hands at the very least--with Moyer representing the kind of brooding figure many would covet, dead or undead.