gobble up

1. 1.

   eat a large amount of food quickly

   “The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake”

   Synonymsgarbage downshovel inbolt down

   Broadereat

Questions about gobble up

What does gobble up mean?

gobble up means "eat a large amount of food quickly".

What is another word for gobble up?

Close synonyms include garbage down, 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 gobble up a common word?

gobble up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.