| 词组 | gobble |
| 释义 | gobble [gobbled, gobbled, gobbling] gobble down gobble down sth • gobble sth down informal to eat something very quickly and eagerly: ▪ Today's kids gobble down bagfuls of cookies, potato chips and other junk foods. ▪ Joseph joined us for lunch, gobbled it down and rushed back to work. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑gobble up informal, ↑wolf down informal gobble up 1. gobble up sth • gobble sth up informal to use or take a lot of something such as land or money, especially in a way that seems unreasonable: ▪ Developers were gobbling up hundreds of acres of land to build houses. ▪ It's a very poor country - just paying its debts gobbles up 30% of its budget each year. 2. gobble up sth • gobble sth up if one company gobbles up a smaller company, it buys it and takes control of it: ▪ Uniford moved to gobble up its rival, Clifton Foods, in a $48 million offer. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑take over 3. gobble up sth • gobble sth up informal to eat all of something very quickly and eagerly: ▪ I thought I'd made plenty of sandwiches for the picnic, but everyone just gobbled them up. |
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