gobble down

present singular third person gobbles down · participle present gobbling down · participle past gobbled down · past gobbled down

1. Synonym of gobble up.

   The average person kind of just gobbles down the same dozen meals and doesn’t really think much about food.

   1995 August 6, Geraldine Baum, quoting Michael Jacobson, “Do They Enjoy Really Being Dinner Party Don’t-Invite-’ems? […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2025

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   The first of these would be a big Canadian breakfast of pancakes with smoked bacon and maple syrup, which we’d gobble down before piling out of the house.

   2012 January 8, Helen McCrory, “My Perfect Sunday: Helen McCrory”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2012

   Millennials are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.”

   2019 December 3, Anahad O’Connor, “Fake Meat vs. Real Meat”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2019

   Synonyms: gobble up