Grokked?

[OZZIE4DUKE]

What the heck does grokked mean? Learned?


a lesson these kids have probably grokked pretty thoroughly by now

Obviously a slang term that hasn't filtered its way up yet.

[yancem]

What the heck does grokked mean? Learned?



Obviously a slang term that hasn't filtered its way up yet.

Thanks! I was wondering the same thing.

[shadowfax336]

and it means understood completely.

may I add that the last line in the analysis completely cracked me up?

[gw67]

I also had no idea what it meant (probably means that I would do poorly on a current day SAT).

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grok

gw67

[Turtleboy]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=grok&searchmode=none

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grok

It's been around a while.

[buddy]

of the old Mickey Gilley song "The Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time." If these guys were drinking all day and all night, they might have had enough to make even these women look like 4's. But waking up next to one of these should have made them seek out an AlAnon meeting ASAP.

[DDoc74]

or does no one remember Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land". From the late 60s. :rolleyes:

[Turtleboy]

or does no one remember Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land". From the late 60s. :rolleyes:It was referenced in posts #3 and #5.

[JStuart]

...and I thought the headline referred to the bizarre number of recruits RRoy has picked up recently. Man, is that weird.

[johnb]

"Grok" flashes me back to my childhood of the late '60's, when "Stranger in a Strange Land" was really popular, and Heinlein was taken up by both militarists and hippies. I haven't read the book in 30 years, but it seemed great at the time.

[billybreen]

I first remember seeing 'grok' on an 'I grok Spock' t-shirt worn by Dana Carvey in an SNL skit starring William Shatner.

http://squidy.150m.com/snlshat.gif

[merry]

or does no one remember Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land". From the late 60s. :rolleyes:

The word has made a weird sort of comeback, although I have no clue if the ones reviving/using it have even read Heinlein. I'm even encountering it in my line of work where I'm hearing that we don't just need to understand the customers we need to grok them. I hate it when the business gurus get a new toy.

[rthomas]

or does no one remember Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land". From the late 60s. :rolleyes:

I always felt that if you were going to invent a religion from a science fiction novel that it should have been Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land rather than any book of L. Ron Hubbard.

[captmojo]

I remember "grotty", from A Hard Day's Night.

[Lotus000]

....so, who else had to head to Wiktionary to look up 'grokked?'

No lying.

[BlueDevilBaby]

I have no idea what that means, but I did not bother to look it up.