gobble

[gobĀ·ble]

To gobble is to eat quickly really quickly. When you gobble your dinner, you hardly even chew your food.

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To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

Noun
the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

Verb
make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

Verb
eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don''t bolt your food!"


v. t.
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

v. t.
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.

v. i.
To eat greedily.

v. i.
To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.

n.
A noise made in the throat.


Gobble

Gob"ble , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling .] [Freq. of 2d gob.] 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Supper gobbled up in haste.
2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

Gobble

Gob"ble, v. i. 1. To eat greedily. 2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

Gobble

Gob"ble, n. A noise made in the throat.
Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

To eat greedily.

A noise made in the throat.

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Usage Examples

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

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Other Usage Examples

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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