Definitions for gobble

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gobble gob·ble

Spelling: [gob-uh l]

IPA: /ˈgɒb əl/

Gobble is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in gobble (bbeglo).

Definitions for gobble

noun

1. the cry itself.

verb (used with object)

1. to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
2. to seize upon eagerly (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to eat hastily.
2. to make the characteristic throaty cry of a male turkey.

Origin of gobble

1595-1605; probably imitative; see gob¹, -le

Examples for gobble

But it is difficult to tell if the inherent salaciousness of the story is the key to what makes this book so easy to gobble up.

And finally, on Monday, AT&T announced a $39 billion deal to gobble up T-Mobile and its 46.5 million customers.

Rank be damned, 45-year-old Badlands still looks hungry to me, and manages to gobble 12 plates in all, with grace.

They may have wounds, big holes in their bodies, and still they'll gobble their victuals.

And the gobble of a turkey; and what attribute of the goose?

Why they will tear us to pieces and gobble us up in five minutes.

Now she had fallen low enough to gobble anything she could find.

And then, like all firms that want to expand rapidly, it started to gobble up other companies whole.

Something between the 'gobble, gobble' of a turkey and the coo of the ring-dove.

They're like a lot of greedy pike just waiting to gobble down all they can.