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gobble
1[ gob-uhl ]
verb (used with object)
- to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- to seize upon eagerly (often followed by up ):
After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.
verb (used without object)
- to eat hastily.
gobble
2[ gob-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to make the characteristic throaty cry of a male turkey.
noun
- the cry itself.
gobble
1/ ˈɡɒbəl /
verb
- whentr, often foll by up to eat or swallow (food) hastily and in large mouthfuls
- informal.troften foll byup to snatch
gobble
2/ ˈɡɒbəl /
noun
- the loud rapid gurgling sound made by male turkeys
interjection
- an imitation of this sound
verb
- intr (of a turkey) to make this sound
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Example Sentences
With “Schitt’s Creek” gobbling up comedy awards, that left “Insecure” and creator Issa Rae empty-handed Sunday.
He drills threes, draws fouls, gobbles rebounds, manipulates pick and rolls and places whomever he’s defending in a vice grip with Defensive Player of the Year-caliber intensity.
China’s “champion eaters” have attracted a dedicated following for their ability to gobble down vast quantities of food.
For one thing, it would have been unusual to come across a whole dead animal that no other predator had gobbled up, and the ichthyosaur would have had to shovel down the huge meal on the seafloor — tough for an air-breathing creature.
“This philosophy of representation theory has gone on to gobble vast tracts of mathematics in the second half of the 20th century,” Williamson told me in an interview.
Rank be damned, 45-year-old Badlands still looks hungry to me, and manages to gobble 12 plates in all, with grace.
And then, like all firms that want to expand rapidly, it started to gobble up other companies whole.
But it is difficult to tell if the inherent salaciousness of the story is the key to what makes this book so easy to gobble up.
Chinese conglomerates gobble up American firms, including Starbucks.
And finally, on Monday, AT&T announced a $39 billion deal to gobble up T-Mobile and its 46.5 million customers.
She aint had time fer ter squeal en needer fer ter grunt 'fo' Brer Wolf gobble 'er up.
Then he clutched his hair, and waddled down the corridor, shrieking, and the purple dress began to gobble with her laughter.
Once a minute, or oftener, he lets out a gobble, until I get up and throw a shoe or a hairbrush at him.
I was about half way across one of these ancient, hobblety-gobble outrages, when I came to grief.
With a terrible roar he advanced to gobble up Peach-Prince, when the dog ran behind and bit the oni in the leg.
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