Meanings
present singular third person scarfs down · participle present scarfing down · participle past scarfed down · past scarfed down
- USinformaltransitiveTo eat (something) quickly.
I plan to scarf down the rest of this sandwich and get back to work.
1 more example
It was Jan. 26 — just two days into GameStop’s big week — when he and his brother hit up Hooters, scarfed down 30 wings and got 10 more to go.
2021 February 7, Matt Phillips, Taylor Lorenz, Tara Siegel Bernard, Gillian Friedman, “The Hopes That Rose and Fell With GameStop”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2021Synonyms: gobble, gobble down, gobble up, scarf, scarf up, scoff, scoff down, scoff up
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo eat (something) quickly.
Translations
Finnish hotkia, ahmia
- hotkiaeat very quickly
- ahmiaeat very quickly
- heittää huiviineat very quickly
French engouffrer
- engouffrereat very quickly
German verschlingen
- verschlingeneat very quickly
Italian ingurgitare, ingozzare
- ingurgitareeat very quickly
- ingozzareeat very quickly
- inghiottireeat very quickly
Latin tuburcinor
- tuburcinoreat very quickly
Polish pałaszować, spałaszować
- pałaszowaćeat very quickly
- spałaszowaćeat very quickly
Swedish sluka
- slukaeat very quickly
Cite this entry
scarf down. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarf%20down
“scarf down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarf%20down. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scarf down,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarf%20down.
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