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grok
verb
to understand, to appreciate US
Coined by Robert Heinlein (1907–1988) for the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961; adopted into semi-mystical use by the counterculture.- — Steve Salaets, Ye Olde Hiptionary, 1970
- Some of my early grokkings while I was tripping had been on the nature of relativity. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tails, p. 197, 1980
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 74, 1983
- In other words, it was established that the [Smothers] Brothers could do what they wanted, but so could the network. In other words, grok Catch-22. — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 237, 1984
- Hard Drugs: Like I said, at first no one grokked how hard they were. — Amy Wallace, Retrohell, p. 61, 1997
- I groked the fullness of my role in the cosmos and didn’t like what I discovered. — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 24, 2001
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