hoover up
Quickly consume everything
To hoover up is to consume or acquire rapidly and eagerly, often in large quantities: The kids hoovered up the pizza in minutes, The company hoovered up smaller competitors.
From the British use of hoover as a verb meaning to vacuum—itself from the Hoover brand.
The phrase suggests indiscriminate, enthusiastic consumption, like a vacuum cleaner sucking up everything in its path.
Eat greedily and fast
- gobbleEat fast and greedily
- wolf downEat very quickly
- scarf downEat rapidly, voraciously
- inhaleDraw air in
bolt · gulp · guzzle · polish off · finish off · demolish · scoff · munch
devour
Eat greedily and fast
- gobbleEat fast and greedily
- wolf downEat very quickly
- scarf downEat rapidly, voraciously
inhale · bolt · gulp · guzzle · polish off · finish off · demolish · scoff · munch · feast
gather
Bring or come together
snap up · grab · scoop up · snatch · acquire · buy up · corner · monopolize · hoard · sweep up
vacuum
Absence of matter
crumbs · dirt · debris · sweep · tidy · floor · rug · nozzle · attachment · plug in
hoover upscatter
Distribute in random directions
disperse · distribute · spread out · give away · dole out