gobbles

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  1. transitive verb To devour in greedy gulps.
  2. transitive verb To take greedily; grab: gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  3. intransitive verb To eat greedily or rapidly.

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  • Good statistics page allows you to shut down tabs that generate memory gobbles (a Firefox weakness). —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Yup, the mom fish lays her eggs and then gobbles them up, thinks that she missed one because the male has an egg-looking spot, eats the male's egg spot, and POOF, fertilization of the eaten eggs. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • That our deficits are uncontrollable because of the left's entitlement industry gobbles up all the oxygen. —  THE RIGHT SCALE
  • Though the rent is a bargain by Rome standards, it gobbles up nearly half her monthly salary, which hovers below the four-figure mark. —  Alanat News
  • When the show is over he retreats to the seclusion of his huge mansion, gobbles pain killers and masturbates until the next day's radio program. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
 

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