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Grok
It means to know or understand, like "yeah man I can grok that."
For those who aren't familiar with the word, it comes from the 1961 scifi novel "Stranger in a Strange Land".
Author Robert A Heinlein ?
Yeah that's right, seems my link didn't populate right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok