Meaning

To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).

Definitions by Sense

1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
2. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
3. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
4. (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
5. (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
6. (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
7. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.

Example Sentences

He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

He began, as his custom, to gobble it up, but when he had eaten for some time, he began to relax a little in his efforts, and at last he sat quite still, with his knife in his hand, looking at the pudding.

“The farm's had a lot of bad luck, you see. Dad thinks there is a curse on the place.” “Most like. Most like,” said Catweazle, gobbling the banana.

Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.

[…] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.

Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.

He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet.

Word Forms

• gobbles
• gobbling
• gobbled

Synonyms for gobble

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When Should You Use Gobble?

Use gobble when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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