<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.</li><li>to seize upon eagerly (often followed by up): After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to eat hastily.</li></ul>