gobbling up
Eating with greed
Gobbling up means consuming greedily or in large quantities.
The image is of a turkey's rapid, voracious eating.
Food gets gobbled up at a party, but so do resources, market share, or smaller companies: Tech giants keep gobbling up startups.
The phrase emphasizes speed and appetite—things disappear quickly when gobbled up.
- devouringEating greedily and quickly
- monopolizingTaking exclusive control
- snapping upAcquiring something quickly
- eatingIngesting sustenance
- engulfingSurrounding and consuming completely
annexing · inhaling · commandeering · consumption · wolfing · scarfing down · swallowing · appropriating · corporate takeover · gluttonous · scarfing · chowing down · ingesting · hoarding · black hole · voracity · rapidly · rapaciousness
gobbling upsavoring
Enjoying something slowly
nibbling · picking at · relishing · sipping · tasting
gobbling upgiving away
Transferring without payment
relinquishing · divesting · releasing · distributing · letting go
gobbling upleaving behind
Departing without something
preserving · saving · sparing · conserving · rationing