Slang for something that can be grokked — understood deeply and intuitively, often at a gut level rather than through formal analysis.
Slang for something that can be grokked — understood deeply and intuitively, often at a gut level rather than through formal analysis. The term is most at home in tech, geek, and hacker subcultures, where 'grok' (from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land) is established vocabulary. Something grokkable is clear enough to produce that satisfying moment of complete comprehension.
The new API is clean and grokkable — you can figure out what it does just by looking at the method names.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
(transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
(internet slang, derogatory) One who uncritically, gullibly, or sycophantically trusts or relies on chatbots for authoritative information or answers, especially Grok.
(Internet slang, mostly, ironic) Capable of being gooned to.
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(slang) Able to be grokked.
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