glom onto sth/sb
US informal— phrasal verb with glom uk/ɡlɒm/us/ɡlɑːm/verb
to become very interested in something such as a new idea or fashion or in someone:
Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
This guy glommed onto me at Tasha's party and wouldn't take no for an answer.
to get or take something that you want:
He glommed onto a couple of my comics and I can't get them back from him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- a piece/slice of the action idiom
- act
- action
- bandwagon
- be in bed with idiom
- bed
- get
- get in on sth
- have a finger in every pie idiom
- have a finger in the pie idiom
- horn
- horn in
- interfere
- interference
- intrude
- intrusion
- meddle
- snoot
- stick your snoot in/into (sth) idiom
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