gobble

[ UK /ɡˈɒbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɑbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
VERB
  1. eat hastily without proper chewing
    Don't bolt your food!
  2. make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
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How To Use gobble In A Sentence

  • Due to the pressures of so many birds trying to feed, the vultures gobble down chunks of flesh and can fill a crop with more than one and half a kilograms of meat in four to five minutes.
  • It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language.
  • I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
  • Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully. I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out.
  • I gobbled down my breakfast and ran out of the house.
  • Nonetheless, I think it's worth examining, because Sebastian's parsing of its meaning is such pure gobbledygook.
  • I mean, that's what critics are saying; this is just basically kind of gobbledygook you're talking about. CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2007
  • Although the underlying business is cash generative, it remains to be seen how much of its cash reserves will be gobbled up by its plans to add 120 aircraft over the next four and a bit years.
  • He admitted it was deliberately written in gobbledegook. The Sun
  • This makes her very attractive to any gobblers, so be sure this deke is highly visible, up on a small knoll or hump if possible. The Field Fakeout
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