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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

gobble
    n 1: the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
    v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
         [syn: gobble, bolt]
    2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. i.
   1. To eat greedily.
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   2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. --Prior.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gobble \Gob"ble\, n.
   A noise made in the throat.
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         Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble.
                                                  --Mrs. Gore.
   [1913 Webster] gobbledegook

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]
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   1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
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            Supper gobbled up in haste.           --Swift.
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   2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
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            He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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   To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture
      suddenly. [Slang]
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5. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)

gobble
 vt.

    1. To consume, usu.: used with ?up?. ?The output spy gobbles characters out
    of a tty output buffer.?

    2. To obtain, usu.: used with ?down?. ?I guess I'll gobble down a copy of
    the documentation tomorrow.? See also snarf.

6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

gobble

   

   1. To consume, usually used with "up".  "The output spy
   gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer."

   2. To obtain, usually used with "down".  "I guess I'll gobble
   down a copy of the documentation tomorrow."

   See also snarf.

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   (2010-01-19)

Thesaurus Results for Gobble:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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