Followed by a transitive particle

• down: Without even stopping to check if anyone can see me I gobble down the hot dog in approximately three bites.

Object

• gift: The perfect way to show sweethearts exactly how you feel without seeing your gift gobbled down.

• sweet: And the bonus is that once you've gobbled the sweets, you get to keep this fabulous jar.

Particle object: up_obj

• material: But black holes do not just sit there doing nothing, gobbling up more material.

• mile: The flight was straight down wind with a great sense of making progress, flying low, gobbling up the miles.

Object

• food: It's not to leave him in the middle of the night, or sneak into the kitchen to gobble leftover food.

Modifying Another Word

• down: The cookies that were always in the sack with the bread, we just gobbled straight down.

• already: UBS has grabbed the reins at fellow Swiss institution SBC, which had already gobbled up the venerable British bank Warburg.

Particle object: up_obj

• resource: So right now, I'm going to turn off this computer and not browse the net- which must gobble up resources!

Modifying Another Word

• greedily: The underlying idea is that the absorb function will greedily gobble up any arguments which are supplied.

• n't: Even if they do n't gobble it up this time, they will do so eventually.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: First Break Break was short so I just had time to gobble down my crisps and set off for French.