Dictionary

gobble up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To consume [something] rapidly.
   • supper gobbled up in haste 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady:
2. (broadly, figuratively) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
   • […] institutional investors keep gobbling up tech, since those that shunned US tech stocks in the past suffered a “bug zapper” of underperformance, said Michael Cembalest of JPMorgan. 2026 July 17, Gillian Tett, “The dangers of investor fatalism”, in Financial Times:
   • The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.

Forms

Synonyms

forsling

Translations (23)

fi haukata (to continually absorb or expand through annexation) · pl pożerać (to consume rapidly) · fi ahnehtia (to consume rapidly) · de verschlingen (to continually absorb or expand through annexation) · fi ahmia (to consume rapidly) · is hakka í sig (to consume rapidly) · ga plac (to consume rapidly) · fi appaa (to consume rapidly) · fr goinfrer (to consume rapidly) · is spæna í sig (to consume rapidly) · is hesthúsa (to consume rapidly) · fi hotkia (to consume rapidly) · pl pochłonąć (to continually absorb or expand through annexation) · is úða í sig (to consume rapidly) · pl pałaszować (to consume rapidly) · sv glufsa i sig (to consume rapidly) · pl pożreć (to consume rapidly) · ru поглощать (to consume rapidly) · la tuburcinor (to consume rapidly) · pl spałaszować (to consume rapidly) · de herunterschlingen (to consume rapidly) · is háma í sig (to consume rapidly) · pl pochłaniać (to continually absorb or expand through annexation)