scarfed up

Verb

scarf up (third-person singular simple present scarfs up, present participle scarfing up, simple past and past participle scarfed up)

1. (US, informal) Synonym of scarf down.
   • Where before flocks of house sparrows were just that, now they are unwelcome visitors, scarfing up the expensive songbird feed intended for cardinals and thrushes and other less-ordinary birds.2009 January 23, Perdita Buchan, “Feathered Friends, Heavy Lifting Required”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021

   Synonyms:

   scarf down