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Meaning of gobble in English

gobble
verb
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/ˈɡɒb.əl/ us
/ˈɡɑː.bəl/

gobble verb (EAT)

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[ I or T ] informal
to eat food too fast:
She gobbled her dinner (down/up).
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to eat food
  • eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
  • haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
  • consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
  • devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
  • bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
  • gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
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gobble verb (MAKE NOISE)

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to make the sound of a male turkey
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Animal (non-human) sounds
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Phrasal verb

gobble something up
(Definition of gobble from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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gobble
verb
us
/ˈɡɑb·əl/

gobble verb (EAT)

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[ T ]
to eat quickly and sometimes with a lot of noise:
[ M ] She gobbled up/down her lunch and hurried back.

gobble verb (MAKE NOISE)

[ I ]
to make the sound of a male turkey (= a large bird)
(Definition of gobble from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of gobble

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There is also another technology —reed beds—which can "gobble up" pollution in a way that is most effective.
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The "ostmark" cannot compete with the deutschmark—the deutschmark would gobble it up.
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He will just have to gobble me up now.
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They are now being made unemployed, and have the galling experience of seeing the coal miners gobble up extra redundancy payments as well.
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People will not be able to gobble up smaller producers just like that.
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When the fan breaks down, or if it does not work properly, the miners gobble dust into their insides.
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I admit that when living in the country one sometimes feels that the carnivorous instincts of these big conurbations may tempt them to gobble us up.
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I do not want these smaller, moderately-sized companies and firms just to sit on their haunches and wait for some big whale to come along and gobble them up.
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There is a feeling afoot that perhaps the food standards agency will gradually gobble up all the local authority enforcement powers in order to amass more power to itself.
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In early spring, male turkeys, also called gobblers or toms, gobble to announce their presence to females and competing males.
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The both gobble down the popcorn until there are only a few pieces left.
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The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence....
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The player must then either gobble all remaining dots or be caught by a ghost in order to reopen the chutes.
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The gobble can carry for up to a mile.
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Gobblers often yelp in the manner of females, and hens can gobble, though they rarely do so.
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Translations of gobble

in Chinese (Traditional)
吃, 狼吞虎嚥，大口大口地吃, 發出噪音…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
吃, 狼吞虎咽，大口大口地吃, 发出噪音…
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in Spanish
engullir, gluglutear, zampar…
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engolir, deglutir, devorar…
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（～を）がつがつ食べる, がつがつ食（た）べる…
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( yemek) silip süpürmek, mideye indirmek, çabuk çabuk yutmak…
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engloutir, glouglouter…
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endrapar…
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schrokken, slokken, klokken…
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hltat, hudrovat…
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sluge, pludre…
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melahap, bunyi kalkun…
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กลืนกินอย่างรวดเร็ว, ส่งเสียงเหมือนไก่งวง…
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nuốt lấy nuốt để, kêu gợp gợp (gà tây)…
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pożerać, gulgotać…
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glufsa i sig, sluka, klucka…
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makan dengan gelojoh, bunyi kelokok…
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hinunterschlingen, kollern…
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sluke, lange i seg, buldre…
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게걸스럽게 먹다…
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їсти пожадливо, пожирати, кулдикати…
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ingozzare, ingoiare, gloglottare…
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