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What does gobble up mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To consume something rapidly.
  2. (by extension, figuratively) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
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Our youth love luxury, they contradict their parents, gobble up dainties from the table, and tyrannise their teachers.
True, streaming audio players for the web have come a long way, but their sound quality is still pretty low, and they gobble up bandwidth.
It will be yet another place that will gobble up the taxpayers' money without any value added.
Some of us are ruthless in the manner we gobble up the natural finite resources of other sovereign states.
In other words, excess of momentum in the upward direction, will make the ball pop up and close-in fielders are ever waiting to gobble up those half-chances!
We therefore have before us an invitation to gobble up and weaken other European projects such as the Seventh Research Framework Programme.

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