1 ~ sth (up / down) to eat sth very fast, in a way that people consider rude or GREEDY:
[VN] Don't gobble your food like that! * They gobbled down all the sandwiches. [also V]
2 [V] when a TURKEY gobbles it makes a noise in its throat
PHRASALVERBS
gobble sth<->up (informal)
1 to use sth very quickly:
Hotel costs gobbled up most of their holiday budget.
2 if a business company, etc. gobbles up a smaller one, it takes control of it
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gobble is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gobble a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gobble is tagged as verb.
Does gobble appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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