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shovel sth into your mouth
(also shovel sth down)Definition
› to put large quantities of food into your mouth very quickly: He was sitting in front of the TV shovelling down a pizza.EatingBiting, chewing and swallowing
(Definition of shovel sth into your mouth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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