gobble sth↔ up phrasal verb informal (see also gobble)

1. 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.

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