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Thursday July 15, 1999

grok \GRAWK\, transitive verb slang:
To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way. Slang.

If you want to grok the language, get your mitts on the new Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang."
-- San Jose Mercury News, July 22, 1994

For those who don't quite grok the Web, it can be an intimidating challenge.
-- New York Times, June 1, 1997

The slang word grok was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", where it is a Martian word meaning literally "to drink" and metaphorically "to be one with". It was adopted into the vocabulary of 1960's youth and hackish jargon, whence it has become a part of net culture.

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