See glom on Wiktionary
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"text": "Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem[…]",
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"text": "[…] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)",
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"gloaming"
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]
},
{
"glosses": [
"darkness"
],
"links": [
[
"darkness",
"darkness"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡloːm/"
}
],
"word": "glom"
}
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