gobble[verb]Synonyms: devour, bolt, cram, gorge, gulp, guzzle, stuff, swallow, wolf
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
gob‧ble /ˈɡɒb
əl $ ˈɡɑː-/
verb informal[
Sense 1: Date: 1600-1700;
Origin: Probably from gob]
[
Sense 2: Date: 1600-1700;
Origin: From the sound]
1. (
also gobble up/down)
[intransitive and transitive] to eat something very quickly, especially in an impolite or
greedy way
Synonym : wolf:
Don’t gobble your food! She gobbled down her lunch.2. [intransitive] to make a sound like a
turkey—gobble noun [countable]gobble sth↔ up phrasal verb informal1. if one company gobbles up a smaller company, it buys it and takes control of it:
Air France gobbled up its main French rivals, Air Inter and UTA.2. to quickly use a lot of a supply of something such as money or land:
Inflation has gobbled up our wage increases.3. to eat something very quickly, especially in an impolite or
greedy way:
We gobbled up all of the cake in one evening. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲