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Gobble up   /gˈɑbəl əp/   Listen
verb
Gobble  v. t.  (past & past part. gobbled; pres. part. gobbling)  
1.
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. "Supper gobbled up in haste."
2.
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. "He... gobbles out a note of self-approbation."
To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. (Slang)





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"Gobble up" Quotes from Famous Books



... my raft, and was loading it with my property, when my eye caught sight of a shoal of fish darting up through the passage, followed by a black, triangular fin, which I quickly recognised as that of a huge shark. I saw the horrid monster overtake and gobble up some of the fugitives, and then quietly come back, as it appeared, to swim sentry at the entrance of the lagoon. Perhaps he knew that the fish would make an attempt to get out again the same way. Be that as it may, I felt no ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston


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