glob

noun

1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

   “He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.”

2. A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
3. A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

verb

1. To stick in globs or lumps.

   “[…] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.”

2. To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

   “In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.”