gobble up
Verb
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Verb
gobble up
- (transitive) To consume [something] rapidly.
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady
- supper gobbled up in haste
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady
- (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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