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GOBBLE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eat a large amount of food quickly
Example:
The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake
Synonyms:
bolt down; garbage down; gobble up; shovel in
Classified under:
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