wolf

Meanings

Plural: wolves

Noun

• 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

• 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.

Synonyms

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