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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gobbled}; p. pr & vb n. {Gobbling}.] [Freq. of 2d gob.] 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. --Swift. 2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. --Goldsmith. {To gobble up}, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. i. 1. To eat greedily. 2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. --Prior. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gobble \Gob"ble\, n. A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. --Mrs. Gore. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gobble n : the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" [syn: {bolt}] 2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: 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}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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}. [{Jargon File}]
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