"glom onto" meaning in English

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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "glommed onto",
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        "past"
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    },
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "So is the argument that all that social good justifies Evan’s manipulative means? Or is the film critiquing the way we all glom onto strangers’ tragedies in order to make ourselves feel like we’re part of something?",
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      "glosses": [
        "To attach oneself to."
      ],
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        "(slang, transitive) To attach oneself to."
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      "glosses": [
        "To appropriate."
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          "appropriate"
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        "(slang, transitive) To appropriate."
      ],
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        {
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          "word": "glomb onto"
        },
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          "word": "glomp onto"
        }
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "glom onto"
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
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        "participle",
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        "To attach oneself to."
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        "(slang, transitive) To attach oneself to."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "transitive"
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        "To appropriate."
      ],
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        "(slang, transitive) To appropriate."
      ],
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      "word": "glomp onto"
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