gobble
verb/ˈɡɑbəl/
Frequency rank: #15,275 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to eat something very quickly and greedily.
Example sentence
The hungry children would gobble up every last piece of pizza at the party.
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