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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To devour in greedy gulps.
  2. v. To take greedily; grab: gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  3. v. To eat greedily or rapidly.
  4. n. The guttural, chortling sound of a male turkey.
  5. v. To make this sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To swallow in large pieces; swallow hastily: often with up or down.
  2. To seize upon with greed; appropriate graspingly; capture: often with up or down.
  3. Synonyms To devour, etc. (see eat); bolt, gulp.
  4. To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.
  5. n. The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey-cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls.
  6. n. In golf, a putt played with such force that it would be carried some distance past the hole if it did not go in, but which does go in.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To make the sound of a turkey.
  2. v. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
  2. v. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
  3. v. To eat greedily.
  4. v. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
  5. n. A noise made in the throat.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
  2. v. eat hastily without proper chewing
  3. n. the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

Etymologies

  1. Frequentative of Middle English gobben, to drink greedily, probably from gobbe, lump, mouthful; see gob1.Imitative.

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