Grokとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹɒk/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑk/
• 韻: -ɒk

動詞

grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking or groking, simple past and past participle grokked or groked)

1. (transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.

   Troponym: subitize

   • 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 106:

     I do not grok all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I grokked. Why?

   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 147:

     In his movie—right right right—and they all grok over that. Grok―and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it.

   • [2008 December, Leslie Anthony, “Running from Babylon”, in Skiing, volume 61, number 4, page 116:

     He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding.]

   • 2016 May 9, Greg Cohen, “Daesong Heavy Industries” (7:38 from the start), in American Dad!‎, season 13, episode 15, spoken by Roger (Seth MacFarlane):

     “(clapping) Stan, wake up! Can't you see? Without the shackles of religion, you're free to do whatever you want. Break a commandment, break all of 'em.” “How will that help?” “Uh, pleasure -- ever heard of it? Ever grokked it? Pleasure is the road to happiness. People talk about filling the void as if it's a bad thing. It's actually full of nerve endings.”

   • 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times‎:

     Because what he never managed to grok then was that the company he created was destined to become a template for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones.

2. (transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

   I finally grok Perl.

   I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.

   • 2008 August, Stanley Bing, “New Help for Hodads”, in Fortune, volume 158, number 3, page 152:

     Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school.

使用する際の注意点

• Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Dutch: grokken
• → French: gnoquer
• → Italian: groccare
• → Japanese: グロック (gurokku)
• → Russian: гро́кать (grókatʹ)
• → Russian: гро́кнуть (gróknutʹ)
• → Slovene: gročiti
• → Turkish: groklamak

参照

Further reading

• grok on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Heinlein Society

アナグラム

• gork