Wolves gobbled sheep and geese, so they hunted and trapped wolves. The local ownership of WIXY was gobbled up by larger communications corporations in the 1970s. Kashyap said he "gobbled" on the opportunity as he was fascinated with the novel. Newly built New England textile mills gobbled up all the wool they could get. We're being gobbled up by nihilism, itself the product of unbridled skepticism.