gobble

n. noise made by a male turkey

v. devour; eat voraciously; make a guttural noise (like a turkey)

Noun
1. the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
(hypernym) cry
Verb
1. eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
(synonym) bolt
(hypernym) eat
(see-also) garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down
(derivation) gobbler
2. make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
(hypernym) utter, emit, let out, let loose

(v. t.)
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
  

(v. t.)
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
  

(v. i.)
To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
  

(v. i.)
To eat greedily.
  

(n.)
A noise made in the throat.
  

1. To consume, usually used with "up". "The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer."
2. To obtain, usually used with "down". "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow."
See also snarf.
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Synonyms and related words:
ablate, absorb, assimilate, batten, bleed white, bolt, bolt down, bring to ruin, burn up, cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, condemn, confound, consume, coo, cram, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, damn, deal destruction, decimate, deplete, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, digest, dissolve, drain, drain of resources, drink, drum, eat, eat up, engorge, engulf, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, gabble, gaggle, glut, gluttonize, gobble up, gorge, gormandize, guggle, gulp, gulp down, gut, gut with fire, guttle, guzzle, havoc, honk, hoo, hoot, imbibe, impoverish, incinerate, ingest, ingurgitate, lay in ruins, lay waste, live to eat, peep, pip, pipe, quack, ravage, raven, roll, ruin, ruinate, scold, shipwreck, sing, slop, slosh, spend, squander, squawk, stuff, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, swill, swill down, throw into disorder, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, use up, vandalize, vaporize, warble, waste, waste away, wear away, whistle, wolf, wolf down, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck