Verb

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(grok)

Verb

(grokk)

(slang) To have or to have acquired 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: see subitize).

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, year=1961 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Robert A. Heinlein , title=Stranger in a Strange Land , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=107 , passage=I do not grok' all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I ' grokked . Why? }}

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, year=1968 , title=(The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) , first=Tom , last=Wolfe , authorlink=Tom Wolfe , isbn=9780553380644 , passage = Grok ?and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it. }}

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, date= , year=2008 , month=Dec , first= , last= , author=Leslie Anthony , coauthors= , title=Running from Babylon , volume=61 , issue=4 , page=116 , magazine=Skiing , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok ", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding. }}

(slang) To fully and completely understand something in all its details and intricacies.

He groks Perl.

I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.

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, date= , year=2008 , month=August , first= , last= , author=Stanley Bing , coauthors= , title=New Help for Hodads , volume=158 , issue=3 , page=152 , magazine=Fortune , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school. }}