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Meanings of gobble in English
To eat by swallowing large bits of food with little or no chewing.
Synonyms
Examples for "bolt"
Examples for "bolt"
1
There's food in there, and a good strong bolt on the outside.
2
Siegrist added a middle bolt and took four days to work it.
3
The bolt came free, along with a good chunk of the wall.
4
Critics fear companies may simply choose to bolt to less costly states.
5
We made plans to return the following year with the bolt gun.
Usage of gobble in English
1
We gobble up billions of dollars' worth of pain-reliever pills each year.
2
Justice Department officials warned that allowing AT&T to gobble up the No.
3
Few organizations gobble up as much fossil fuel as the U.S. military.
4
He watches the odd creatures eagerly as they gobble up the seed.
5
Alec saw one of the larger ones gobble down two at once.
6
I'll gobble them up and deliver the right article to the city.
7
Now they gobble down a full breakfast and drink fresh, strong coffee.
8
He was probably watching for an opportunity to gobble up the goldfish.
9
The red-haired boy began to gobble and walk in a large circle.
10
You wouldn't stand for it; you had to gobble everything for nothing.
11
And they had to gobble it all up, as he told them.
12
They gobble up your whole life, until one day there's nothing left.
13
Now she had fallen low enough to gobble anything she could find.
14
You always speak as if you were going to gobble people up.
15
They would just pour their cereal into a bowl, gobble and go.
16
A swallow sweeping close to the water's surface may gobble him down.
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Gobble through the time
Gobble across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common