May 15, 2003

gobble

vt.

1. To consume, usu.: used with ‘up’. The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer.

2. To obtain, usu.: used with ‘down’. I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow. See also snarf.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:45 AM

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