What does "groomed" mean?

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Grooming requires some kind of power imbalance and causing the victim to feel attached to/dependent on the groomer, isolated, and so on. In common usage, grooming only refers to adults sexually/romantically manipulating minors, but it can be used more broadly to talk about other kinds of abusive relationships.

You can also financially groom someone, such as if someone is manipulated to give their money to someone or to do work for them with no payment. Not all abusive relationships involve grooming, though. Someone who's just abusive without a power imbalance or attempting to isolate the victim and make them feel dependent on them and who doesn't first try to make the victim trust/rely on them (and so on) is not a groomer. It has a specific meaning so it doesn't apply to all abusive situations.

It would be difficult for someone under 18 to groom someone else under 18 unless they were very different in age/maturity (e.g. a 15-year-old grooming a 10-year-old). It's not impossible and it does (unfortunately) happen, but it's not as common as adult/minor because (in my opinion) grooming requires a certain mindset and set of goals/intentions that isn't common in younger people. Grooming takes a while and requires a level of control that would be difficult for a young person to have over another child in the context of being surrounded by other adults and parents and so on. You normally just see bullying or coercion or other kinds of abuse rather than actual grooming.