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verb ˈɡɒb(ə)lˈɡɑbəl [with object]often gobble something up1Eat (something) hurriedly and noisily. he gobbled up the rest of his sandwich Example sentencesExamples - It does seem like we had to wait ages for it to arrive and once we had it in our hands, we gobbled it up.
- At Aunt Poogee's gentle encouragement, Hope places her special dessert on the table alongside the other family dishes and watches with pride and joy as her peppermint pickles are gobbled up.
- There's nothing wrong with killing animals and gobbling them up, as long as they're not looking at me.
- And I was really dismayed my family didn't gobble them up, beg for more.
- And then we would manage to ferret away all the chocolate brownies and ice cream we could get and gobbled them up until our stomachs were swollen, as though we were five months pregnant.
- This was true - Generation 1 had ripped open the resource, a small bag of the colorful candies, and gobbled them up.
- It melted in less than 2 minutes while he gobbled it up.
- I pull out my lunch bag and begin tearing off pieces and throwing them to the fish who gobble them up as if they hadn't eaten in days, maybe weeks.
- The turkey's on the table, but they don't seem to have gobbled it up.
- An entire industry developed around producing low-fat snack foods and consumers have gobbled them up in hopes of losing weight and improving health.
- ‘We think that their eggs would be gobbled up by something if they didn't basically hide them in the gill chamber,’ she said.
- I put three different pieces down and the rats are just gobbling them up.
- On top of the milieu, in wonted Godspeed fashion, an old man recalls a bizarre and oddly moving story of how a penguin is gobbled up by a killer whale.
- I gobbled them up, and my friend and I decided to leave the place as quickly as possible.
- Few Great Lakes bird or fish species eat zebras directly, but another Eurasian invader, the round goby, gobbles them up.
- She fears the food she places into her mouth, yet she gobbles it up greedily.
- One was gobbled up immediately, the other sat in my freezer until I defrosted it and gobbled it up just as greedily.
- Without blinking, his little brother snaps his fingers and a Great Dane bounds over and gobbles the mess up in one bite.
- Leave a lump of coal laying around, and it would rot like a corpse as microbes gobbled it up, and a cup of oil (which would be nice and tasty to us) would spoil like milk.
- Any bread left in the kitchenette was gobbled up to the last crumb by our resident elves.
Synonyms eat greedily/hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp, swallow hurriedly, devour, wolf, cram, gorge (oneself) on, gorge oneself informal tuck into, put/pack away, demolish, polish off, scoff (down), down, stuff (down), murder, shovel down, stuff one's face (with), pig oneself (on), nosh British informal gollop, shift Northern Irish informal gorb North American informal scarf (down/up), snarf (down/up) rare gluttonize, gourmandize, ingurgitate - 1.1 Use a large amount of (something) very quickly.
these old houses just gobble up money Example sentencesExamples - Quality retail space is not readily available as customers gobble it up almost as soon as it hits the market.
- So, the lower the charges, the less of your money is gobbled up and the better chance you have of matching the market.
- Also, these plans have pretty steep fees, so a large chunk of your money is gobbled up in charges.
- A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough - and most of the supply was gobbled up for laptops, meaning desktop LCD monitors stayed expensive.
- Although the underlying business is cash generative, it remains to be seen how much of its cash reserves will be gobbled up by its plans to add 120 aircraft over the next four and a bit years.
- In fact, about four-fifths of your premium is gobbled up by the commission that your lender creams off.
- Or maybe it doesn't create time, but actually consumes it, gobbles it up.
- He said a lot of resources had been gobbled up trying to sort out the mess in ZAM and yet it was personal issues that had led to the in-fighting in the association.
- 1.2 (of a large organization) incorporate or take over (a smaller one)
this small department was gobbled up by the Ministry of Transport Example sentencesExamples - Family-run farms and workshops were gobbled up by capitalist giants, and their owners driven into the working class.
- On the other hand, in an Internet economy where the competition is breathing down your neck, a niche business could be gobbled up by a competitor if either one of the following cases exists.
- But it has aroused fears that cities and towns could be gobbled up into a Greater Leeds as has happened around London and Manchester.
- The other thing that has changed is that as the major labels have been gobbled up by larger corporate entities, there has been more pressure on them to make larger and larger profits to feed the uber-company's bottom line.
- Small companies were gobbled up by giant corporations.
- I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
- When the company was gobbled up by industry giant Hasbro, Avalon Hill fans held their breath.
- Well, if Softbank and Nomura and the rest don't watch out they will be gobbled up too.
- Broadcast networks were gobbled up by corporate parents and cable TV began to eat into the number of their viewers.
Origin Early 17th century: probably from gob1. Rhymes bobble, Chernobyl, cobble, hobble, knobble, nobble, squabble, wobble verb ˈɡɒb(ə)lˈɡɑbəl [no object]1(of a turkeycock) make a characteristic swallowing sound in the throat. Example sentencesExamples - He had the children stay with him low in the bushes as the turkey gobbled away from inside the bag.
- It sounds like a gaggle of angry turkeys gobbling.
- The turkey scooted up the hill, gobbling worriedly.
- These calls mimic sounds in nature that turkeys often respond to by gobbling.
- Back in 1505, turkeys were still gobbling innocently around America.
- A wild turkey gobbled, and we returned to camp for dinner beneath a full moon.
- ‘These are natural loud sounds that in the spring cause turkeys to gobble and give a hunter the opportunity to locate them,’ Harris says.
- 1.1 (of a person) make a swallowing sound in the throat when speaking, especially when excited or angry.
she was gobbling to herself faintly in her distress Example sentencesExamples - Bruckner was gobbling about how he was 'just following orders'.
- She sat silently in a corner and smirked at everyone praising God and gobbling about miracles.
- The big problem today which everyone seems to be gobbling about without any idea of what to do about it is the national annual deficit.
Origin Late 17th century: imitative, perhaps influenced by gobble1. verbˈɡɑbəlˈɡäbəl [with object]1Eat (something) hurriedly and noisily. one man gobbled up a burger no object they don't eat, they gobble Example sentencesExamples - I gobbled them up, and my friend and I decided to leave the place as quickly as possible.
- At Aunt Poogee's gentle encouragement, Hope places her special dessert on the table alongside the other family dishes and watches with pride and joy as her peppermint pickles are gobbled up.
- She fears the food she places into her mouth, yet she gobbles it up greedily.
- One was gobbled up immediately, the other sat in my freezer until I defrosted it and gobbled it up just as greedily.
- An entire industry developed around producing low-fat snack foods and consumers have gobbled them up in hopes of losing weight and improving health.
- I put three different pieces down and the rats are just gobbling them up.
- Without blinking, his little brother snaps his fingers and a Great Dane bounds over and gobbles the mess up in one bite.
- I pull out my lunch bag and begin tearing off pieces and throwing them to the fish who gobble them up as if they hadn't eaten in days, maybe weeks.
- There's nothing wrong with killing animals and gobbling them up, as long as they're not looking at me.
- ‘We think that their eggs would be gobbled up by something if they didn't basically hide them in the gill chamber,’ she said.
- Leave a lump of coal laying around, and it would rot like a corpse as microbes gobbled it up, and a cup of oil (which would be nice and tasty to us) would spoil like milk.
- And then we would manage to ferret away all the chocolate brownies and ice cream we could get and gobbled them up until our stomachs were swollen, as though we were five months pregnant.
- This was true - Generation 1 had ripped open the resource, a small bag of the colorful candies, and gobbled them up.
- On top of the milieu, in wonted Godspeed fashion, an old man recalls a bizarre and oddly moving story of how a penguin is gobbled up by a killer whale.
- It does seem like we had to wait ages for it to arrive and once we had it in our hands, we gobbled it up.
- The turkey's on the table, but they don't seem to have gobbled it up.
- It melted in less than 2 minutes while he gobbled it up.
- Few Great Lakes bird or fish species eat zebras directly, but another Eurasian invader, the round goby, gobbles them up.
- And I was really dismayed my family didn't gobble them up, beg for more.
- Any bread left in the kitchenette was gobbled up to the last crumb by our resident elves.
Synonyms eat greedily, eat hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp, swallow hurriedly, devour, wolf, cram, gorge on, gorge oneself on, gorge oneself - 1.1 Use a large amount of (something) very quickly.
these old houses just gobble up money Example sentencesExamples - In fact, about four-fifths of your premium is gobbled up by the commission that your lender creams off.
- He said a lot of resources had been gobbled up trying to sort out the mess in ZAM and yet it was personal issues that had led to the in-fighting in the association.
- A year ago, it seemed LCD manufacturers couldn't churn the products out fast enough - and most of the supply was gobbled up for laptops, meaning desktop LCD monitors stayed expensive.
- So, the lower the charges, the less of your money is gobbled up and the better chance you have of matching the market.
- Quality retail space is not readily available as customers gobble it up almost as soon as it hits the market.
- Or maybe it doesn't create time, but actually consumes it, gobbles it up.
- Although the underlying business is cash generative, it remains to be seen how much of its cash reserves will be gobbled up by its plans to add 120 aircraft over the next four and a bit years.
- Also, these plans have pretty steep fees, so a large chunk of your money is gobbled up in charges.
- 1.2 (of a large organization or other body) incorporate or take over (a smaller one)
he amassed his packaging empire by gobbling up National Can Corporation Example sentencesExamples - When the company was gobbled up by industry giant Hasbro, Avalon Hill fans held their breath.
- But it has aroused fears that cities and towns could be gobbled up into a Greater Leeds as has happened around London and Manchester.
- I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
- The other thing that has changed is that as the major labels have been gobbled up by larger corporate entities, there has been more pressure on them to make larger and larger profits to feed the uber-company's bottom line.
- Well, if Softbank and Nomura and the rest don't watch out they will be gobbled up too.
- Family-run farms and workshops were gobbled up by capitalist giants, and their owners driven into the working class.
- Broadcast networks were gobbled up by corporate parents and cable TV began to eat into the number of their viewers.
- Small companies were gobbled up by giant corporations.
- On the other hand, in an Internet economy where the competition is breathing down your neck, a niche business could be gobbled up by a competitor if either one of the following cases exists.
Origin Early 17th century: probably from gob. verbˈɡɑbəlˈɡäbəl [no object]1(of a male turkey) make a characteristic swallowing sound in the throat. Example sentencesExamples - These calls mimic sounds in nature that turkeys often respond to by gobbling.
- A wild turkey gobbled, and we returned to camp for dinner beneath a full moon.
- Back in 1505, turkeys were still gobbling innocently around America.
- The turkey scooted up the hill, gobbling worriedly.
- It sounds like a gaggle of angry turkeys gobbling.
- ‘These are natural loud sounds that in the spring cause turkeys to gobble and give a hunter the opportunity to locate them,’ Harris says.
- He had the children stay with him low in the bushes as the turkey gobbled away from inside the bag.
- 1.1 (of a person) make a swallowing sound when speaking, especially when excited or angry.
she was gobbling to herself faintly in her distress Example sentencesExamples - The big problem today which everyone seems to be gobbling about without any idea of what to do about it is the national annual deficit.
- Bruckner was gobbling about how he was 'just following orders'.
- She sat silently in a corner and smirked at everyone praising God and gobbling about miracles.
Origin Late 17th century: imitative, perhaps influenced by gobble. |