garbage down

1. 1.

   eat a large amount of food quickly

   “The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake”

   Synonymsgobble upshovel inbolt down

   Broadereat

Questions about garbage down

What does garbage down mean?

garbage down means "eat a large amount of food quickly".

What is another word for garbage down?

Close synonyms include gobble up, shovel in, bolt down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garbage down a common word?

garbage down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.