grom.html - n.
(also grummet)
1 a metal, plastic, or rubber eyelet placed in a hole to protect or insulate a rope or cable etc. passed through it.
2 a tube passed through the eardrum in surgery to make a communication with the middle ear. [obs. F grommette f. gourmer to curb, of unkn. orig.]

grom.html - n.
any of various plants of the genus Lithospermum, with hard seeds formerly used in medicine. [ME f. OF gromil, prob. f. med.L gruinum milium (unrecorded) crane's millet]

grom.html - See: IN THE GROOVE.

grom.html - {v.}, {slang} To commit a vulgar act; to repel someone by saying a disgusting or vulgar thing. * /You are going to gross out people if you continue talking like that./

grom.html - {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen-agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen-age sons engaged in a gross-out session; he bawled them out and cut their weekly allowance./

grom.html - See: BREAK GROUND, COMMON GROUND, COVER GROUND or COVER THE GROUND, CUT THE GROUND FROM UNDER, EAR TO THE GROUND, FEET ON THE GROUND, GAIN GROUND, GET OFF THE GROUND, GIVE GROUND, HAPPY HUNTING GROUND, HOLD ONE'S GROUND, LOSE GROUND, MIDDLE GROUND, RUN INTO THE GROUND, STAMPING GROUND, STAND ONE'S GROUND, FROM THE GROUND UP.