wolf

Plural: wolves

Noun

• A carnivorous canid mammal, known for howling.
• any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
• Austrian composer (1860-1903)
• German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
• a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
• a cruelly rapacious person
• Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
• Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
• Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
• A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
• A wolf tone or wolf note.
• Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
• One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
• A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
• A wolf spider.
• An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
• A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Verb

Verb Forms: wolfed, wolfing, wolfs

• To eat food quickly and ravenously.
• eat hastily
  • "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"
• To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
• To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
• To hunt for wolves.

Examples

• He decided to WOLF down his sandwich before his Words With Friends turn.
• the bee wolf
• The player felt like a lone WOLF, surrounded by formidable opponents.
• The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
• They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Synonyms

beast, brute, Friedrich August Wolf, Hugo Wolf, masher, savage, skirt chaser, wildcat, wolf down, woman chaser, grey wolf, gulp down, loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover

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