gob ‧ ble /ˈɡɒb ə l $ ˈɡɑː-/ BrE AmE verb informal
[ Sense 1: Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Probably from gob ]
[ Sense 2: Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: From the sound ]
1 . ( also gobble up/down ) [intransitive and transitive] to eat something very quickly, especially in an impolite or ↑ greedy way SYN wolf :
Don’t gobble your food!
She gobbled down her lunch.
2 . [intransitive] to make a sound like a ↑ turkey
—gobble noun [countable]
gobble sth↔ up phrasal verb informal
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.