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verb
- 1. eat (something) hurriedly and noisily: "he gobbled up the rest of his sandwich"
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[ I or T ] informal. to eat food too fast: She gobbled her dinner (down/up). Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to eat food. eat What do you want to eat for lunch? have I'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake. consume He consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal. devour The children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
The meaning of GOBBLE is to swallow or eat greedily. How to use gobble in a sentence.
To gobble is to eat quickly — really quickly. When you gobble your dinner, you hardly even chew your food.
Gobble definition: to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.. See examples of GOBBLE used in a sentence.
5 meanings: 1. to eat or swallow (food) hastily and in large mouthfuls 2. informal to snatch 1. the loud rapid gurgling sound.... Click for more definitions.
Definition of gobble verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to eat quickly and sometimes with a lot of noise: [ M ] She gobbled up/down her lunch and hurried back. gobble verb (MAKE NOISE) [ I ] to make the sound of a male turkey (= a large bird) (Definition of gobble from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gobble.
gobble meaning, definition, what is gobble: to eat something very quickly, especiall...: Learn more.
1. (when: tr, often foll by up) to eat or swallow (food) hastily and in large mouthfuls. 2. informal (often foll by: up) to snatch. [C17: probably from gob 1] gobble. ( ˈɡɒbəl) n. (Zoology) the loud rapid gurgling sound made by male turkeys. interj. an imitation of this sound. vb. (Zoology) ( intr) (of a turkey) to make this sound.
to seize upon and read eagerly:[ ~ + up + object] She would go and gobble up the books in the library.
