'gobble' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to eat, swallow, or gulp down something quickly and noisily. For example: "The baby gobbled up his breakfast."
I am so frustrated at the way greedy bigger football clubs gobble up players that have been signed up, and then carefully nurtured over the months and years, by teams like my own Dundee United.
But it is a joke with an edge, given that the republican wolf, which the SDLP brought in from the political wilderness in the 1980s, is now threatening to gobble the party up at the polls on November 26.
Soriot, who is desperately fighting Pfizer's plans to gobble up his company in the biggest ever foreign takeover of a British firm, said the planned £63bn deal could severely jeopardise the development of some of the world's most promising drugs.
In the astonishing world of plankton, bright pink, micron-sized dinoflagellates looking like spaceships glide slowly over the surface of the sea; beautiful, flute-like tintinnids exchange genes temporarily with each other; and slender chaetognatha, or arrow worms, bristle with hairs and become cannibals as they gobble up their relatives.
This reflects a big rise in the number of civilian support staff and a failure to trim excess infrastructure (the Pentagon reckons it has 20% more bases than it needs).If growth in these two areas continued unchecked, Mr Harrison calculates that by 2024 they would gobble up the entire defence budget.
In 2003 retirement costs accounted for 3% of the city's general fund; now they gobble up 18%, a figure that will rise further without action.
Rating agencies accepted the hypothesis of ever rising home values, gave large portions of each security issue an investment-grade rating, and investors gobbled them up.Why did investors gobble them up?
That allows capital to gobble up a larger share of national income, raising its return.
One scenario is that the stars will gobble up planets in their orbit one at a time.
Yet its biggest market is China, which would happily gobble up as much copper, coal, gold and other minerals as Mongolia can produce.
Even when London was outstripped by the rest of Britain in 2001, it still managed to expand by 2.0%.Furthermore house buyers in and around the capital will be pummelled by rising mortgage costs arising from the credit crunch, a blow that will hit them hard since housing costs already gobble up a bigger share of their household budgets than in the rest of the country.
