GOBBLE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gobble up mean? 

• GOBBLE UP (verb)
  The verb GOBBLE UP has 1 sense:

1. eat a large amount of food quickly

  Familiarity information: GOBBLE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOBBLE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat a large amount of food quickly

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

bolt down; garbage down; gobble up; shovel in

Context example:

The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

Hypernyms (to "gobble up" is one way to...):

eat (take in solid food)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They gobble up more bread

 Context examples 

Did the monster galaxy gobble up much smaller satellite galaxies over time?

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

Supermassive black holes lurk in the cores of most galaxies, and when they gobble up matter they also heat the surrounding gas and expel it from the host galaxy in powerful, dense winds.

(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)