gob up

Verb

gob up (third-person singular simple present gobs up, present participle gobbing up, simple past and past participle gobbed up)

1. To gobble; to consume.
   • Everyone at the table now had their eyes fixed on Lantier, who, quietly seated beside Coupeau, was gobbing up the last piece of Savoy cake, which he sopped in his glass of wine.1909, Émile Zola, Drink, page 199
   • We are again and again made aware of the cruel fact of the sharks in Indian gobbing up the share of the national wealth that legitimately belongs to the vast masses of the country.2005, Amar Nath Prasad, Indian Writing in English: Critical Appraisals, →ISBN, page 151
2. To hawk up; To force phlegm or other viscous fluid up through the throat.
   • She had a bottle of, well, bird spit (or phlegm, as she preferred to call it) each day. It was the stuff birds gob up as glue when they're making a nest, apparently, and it was supposed to be good for the skin.2011, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Aisleyne: Surviving Guns, Gangs and Glamour, →ISBN
   • This game so sickened one female guest that she ran outside and puked all over the steps, causing us to laugh uproariously and gob up another flurry of big slimy horkers (we later put an end to this revolting practice when we all ended up with the same nasty cold).2012, Chris Walter, I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk, →ISBN
3. To coat with a gooey substance.
   • The manager tells us this is really bad, as he puts a red bandana over his face, and we gob up the Vicks gel under our noses.2000, Dan Heidt, Disposable Heroes, →ISBN, page 144
   • It took longer to gob up the ammo but in Obadi's words it was “more satisfying”.2008, Stephan Ray Swimmer, Changing of Seasons, →ISBN, page 60
4. To add too many embellishments.
   • Wild game, fish, chicken, beef, pork (hawg meat) cooked right and seasoned with salt and pepper and not gobbed up with wild sauces, garlic, curry powder, kumquats, turffles, olive oil, prawns or drown'ed in wine!1957, Rayburn's Ozark Guide - Issues 51-66, page 32
   • His prose is generous, unhurried, and far too tasteful to gob up the page with theory.2001, Bookforum: The Book Review for Art and Culture
5. To pack or fill with waste material.
   • Packers did the packing and stopping ; they were employed to pack up at nights. I cannot give you names, because we were changing every week. I think one man's name was William Abraham. They came in with the rubbish every night to gob up.1879, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 18, page 24
   • There is no waste dump at the surface, and none of the contents of the lode as yet broken down have been so poor in silver as to be thrown away or used for gobbing up.1885, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Ferdinand Becker, Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals
6. To clog or become clogged.
   • The moment the hearth of a furnace which is using these ores cools below the quality of the heat required to liquefy the cinder it chills against the walls, gobs up the hearth, and reduces the yield of the furnace.1881, American Iron and Steel Association -, The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association
   • Nothing gobs up the creative flow more than the image of a fat, lonely, middle-aged insurance salesman lying on his bed and pulling on his weenie while he listens to my words coming over the line1993 April, Pondering in Portland, “Ask Camille Paglia”, in Spy, volume 7, number 6, page 25
7. To form clumps.
   • It is good to let the glue get nice and thick through many renewals, but if the glue gobs up unevenly, remove it with a scraper and hot air gun.1988, Climbing - Issues 106-111, page 24
   • The resulting goo gobs up around my molars, and I decide not to swallow it.2011, Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, →ISBN