gobble
IPA: gˈɑbʌɫ
noun
- (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
- The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- A surname.
verb
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
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Examples of "gobble" in Sentences
- The gobble can carry for up to a mile.
- The hungry dog gobbled up the chicken.
- The long dark night is waiting to gobble each piece of me.
- No sooner, does Tom grab the fish does the seal gobble it up.
- The men gobble them up because they know they're the store pickles.
- The gobble is also not smart if the land you are hunting is wide open.
- Macrophages in the body protect against infection and gobble up debris.
- The both gobble down the popcorn until there are only a few pieces left.
- This caused the reference to remain open and gobble up all that followed.
- They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- In the spring the turkey-cocks begin to gobble, which is the language wherein they make love.
- Going to your hunting spot at dusk and waiting for them to gobble is called "roosting a turkey".
- The action of "I have come to gobble you up," is emphasized and made realistic by the _bb_ of _gobble_ and the _p_ of _up_.
- He had scarcely closed his eyes when a faint "_Gobble, gobble, gobble_" from across the cornfield drove all idea of sleep out of his head.
- MOST HUNTERS know an owl hoot can make a tom gobble from the roost, but locator calls can do much more, from making midday birds talk to keeping a hot tom at bay long enough for you to set up.
- Even her press announcement stating that she was stepping down as governor, she sounded like a turkey with her head cut off ... gobble gobble is all that could be made of the thoughts she was trying to get out.
- They name the Months very agreeably, as one is the Herring-Month, another the Strawberry-Month, another the Mulberry-Month, Others name them by the Trees That blossoms; especially, the Dogwood-Tree; or they say, we will return when Tur-Key-Cocks gobble, that is in March and April.
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