Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to consume something rapidly
WordNet
v. eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake" [syn: garbage down, shovel in, bolt down]
Usage examples of "gobble up".
He is a miser, while she is a glutton, a solitary eater, most innocent of vices and yet the shadow or parodic vice of his, for he would like to eat up all the world, or, failing that, since fate has not spread him a sufficiently large table for his ambitions, he is a mute, inglorious Napoleon, he does not know what he might have done because he never had the opportunity -- since he has not access to the entire world, he would like to gobble up the city of Fall River.
It attacked, threatening to gobble up Punny, because she was delectable, and Unpun tried to protect her.
He always loved that sort of thing and I remember the glee with which he described how, in some churches in the Age of Faith, a beadle with a sword stood near the altar at Communion, ready to stab any dog or cat who might wander in and gobble up a fallen crumb of the Holy Bread.
He'd gobble up his dessert so fast there wasn't time to see no pictures in it.
The dragon was about to gobble up the two people trapped on the ledge.
At least, she reflected, there were no birds down here to gobble up her backtrail.
For, as the combination was finished, a hideous jinni of smoke and flame seemed to pop out of nowhere and gobble up the gyro.