gobble up
Verb

gobble up

  1. (transitive) To consume [something] rapidly.
    • 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady
      supper gobbled up in haste
  2. (by extension, figurative) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
    The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.
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