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

1. Eat hastily
   "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"
   - wolf down

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: wolves, wolfs, wolfing, wolfed

See also: lupine, wolfish

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 Wolf, Run, Pig, Fall Down Wolf, Minnesota Wolf, Graf von Baudissin

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