• Bridegroom, also shortened to "groom", a male wedding partner

Occupations

• Groom (horses)
  Groom (horses)
  A groom is a person who is responsible for some or all aspects of the management of horses and/or the care of the stables themselves. The term most often refers to a person who is the employee of a stable owner, but even an owner of a horse may perform the duties of a groom, particularly if the...
  
  , a person responsible for the feeding and care of horses
• Certain distinguished roles in the English Royal Household:
  • Groom of the Chamber
    Groom of the Chamber
    Groom of the Chamber and Groom of the Privy Chamber were positions in the Royal Household of the English monarchy, the latter considerably more elevated. Other Ancien Régime royal establishments in Europe had comparable officers, often with similar titles...
    
    , or of the Privy Chamber of men
  • Groom of the Robes
    Groom of the Robes
    Groom of the Robes is an obsolete office in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England, later Great Britain, ultimately the United Kingdom. It is equivalent to a Lady-in-Waiting for Queens Regnant.-List of Grooms of the Robes:...
    
    
  • Groom of the Stole
    Groom of the Stole
    Groom of the Stole in the British Royal Household is a position dating from the Stuart era but which evolved from the earlier Groom of the Stool, an office in existence until the accession of Elizabeth I. The original nomenclature derived from the chair used in the performance of the function...
    
    
  • Groom of the Stool
    Groom of the Stool
    The Groom of the Stool was the most intimate of a monarch's courtiers, whose physical intimacy naturally led to him becoming a man in whom much confidence was placed by his royal master, and with whom many royal secrets were shared as a matter of course...
    
    

Places

• Groom Lake
  Groom Lake
  Groom Lake is a salt flat in Nevada used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport on the north of the Area 51 USAF military installation. The lake at elevation is ~ from north to south and from east to west at its widest point...
  
  , a geographic feature of the United States Military Area 51
• Division of Groom
  Division of Groom
  The Division of Groom is anAustralian Electoral Division in Queensland.The division was created in 1984, when the old Division of Darling Downs was abolished, and is named in honour of Sir Littleton Groom, a long-serving member for Darling Downs....
  
  , a Commonwealth Electoral Division in Queensland, Australia
• Groom, Texas
  Groom, Texas
  Groom is a town in Carson County, Texas, United States. The population was 587 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Amarillo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  , a town in Carson County, Texas, United States, location of the second largest cross in the western hemisphere

Grooming

• Adult grooming
  Adult grooming
  Adult grooming is the adult equivalent to child grooming and applies to any behaviour where an adult is prepared so they unwittingly allow abusive behaviour or exploitation to occur later. The abuser typically befriends or builds a relationship with the victim in order to establish a relationship...
  
  , befriending an adult, in the negative context of preparing them to accept inappropriate behavior
• Child grooming
  Child grooming
  Child grooming refers to actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, in order to lower the child's inhibitions in preparation for sexual activity with the child, or exploitation .Child grooming may be used to lure minors into...
  
  , befriending a child, in the negative context of preparing them to accept inappropriate behavior
• Dog grooming
  Dog grooming
  Dog grooming refers to both the hygienic care and cleaning of a dog, as well as a process by which a dog's physical appearance is enhanced for showing or other types of competition. A dog groomer is a person who earns their living grooming dogs.-Reasons for grooming:Grooming is an important part...
  
  , the care provided for a dog's physical appearance (especially its coat and nails), or specific work done to enhance its appearance for a show
• Horse grooming
  Horse grooming
  Horse grooming is hygienic care given to a horse, or a process by which the horse's physical appearance is enhanced for horse shows or other types of competition.-Reasons for grooming:...
  
  , the daily hygienic care provided for horses, or specific work done on the horse to enhance its physical appearance for a show
• Personal grooming
  Personal grooming
  Personal grooming is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior that is controlled by neural circuits in the brain.- In humans :...
  
  , or preening, in humans and animals, a hygienic activity (caring for physical appearance)
• Snow grooming, the process of preparing snow for recreational uses, such as skiing
• Social grooming
  Social grooming
  In social animals, including humans, social grooming or allogrooming is an activity in which individuals in a group clean or maintain one another's body or appearance. It is a major social activity, and a means by which animals who live in proximity can bond and reinforce social structures, family...
  
  , the activity by which animals and people who live in proximity can bond and reinforce social structures
• Traffic grooming
  Traffic grooming
  Traffic grooming is the process of grouping many small telecommunications flows into larger units, which can be processed as single entities. For example, in a network using both time-division multiplexing and wavelength-division multiplexing , two flows which are destined for a common node can...
  
  , a technical activity in telecommunications