grokkable
Slang for something that can be grokked — understood deeply and intuitively, often at a gut level rather than through formal analysis.
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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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(slang) Able to be grokked.
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