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Noun: wolf (wolves)  wûlf
  1. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
  2. A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
    - woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher
  3. A cruelly rapacious person
    - beast, savage, brute, wildcat
Verb: wolf  wûlf
  1. Eat hastily
    "The teenager wolfed down the pizza";
    - wolf down
Noun: Wolf  volf
  1. German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
    - Friedrich August Wolf
  2. Austrian composer (1860-1903)
    - Hugo Wolf

Derived forms: wolfs, wolves, wolfed, wolfing

Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, canid, canine, classical scholar, classicist, composer, eat, ladies' man, lady's man, philanderer, womaniser [Brit], womanizer

Part of: Canis, genus Canis

Encyclopedia: Wolf, MN