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Gobble up   /gˈɑbəl əp/   Listen
Gobble up

verb
1.
Eat a large amount of food quickly.  Synonyms: bolt down, garbage down, shovel in.






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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



Words linked to "Gobble up" :   eat



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