scarf down

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

1. (transitive, US, informal) To eat (something) quickly.

   Synonyms: gobble, gobble down, gobble up; scarf, scarf up; (UK) scoff, scoff down, scoff up; snarf; wolf, wolf down, wolf up

   I plan to scarf down the rest of this sandwich and get back to work.

   • 2021 February 7, Matt Phillips, Taylor Lorenz, Tara Siegel Bernard, Gillian Friedman, “The Hopes That Rose and Fell With GameStop”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 February 2021:

     It was Jan. 26 — just two days into GameStop’s big week — when he and his brother hit up Hooters, scarfed down 30 wings and got 10 more to go.

• “scarf down, phrasal verb”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.