Grok
WordNet
verb
(1) Get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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Etymology
Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land in which the word is described as being from the word for to drink and, figuratively, "to drink in all available aspects of reality", "to become one with the observed" in Heinlein's fictitious Martian language.
Verb
- To have an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think (such as knowing the number of objects in a collection without needing to count them).
- To fully and completely understand something in all its details and intricacies.
- He groks Perl.
Usage notes
- Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."