wolf

IPA: wˈʊɫf

noun

  • 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.
  • (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
  • (figurative) 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.
  • (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  • A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
  • The constellation Lupus.
  • A surname transferred from the given name.
  • A male given name

verb

  • (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
  • (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
  • (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.
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Examples of "wolf" in Sentences

  • One howlin 'wolf is awesome enough ... but three???
  • In other words, the wolf is a "persistence predator."
  • Zenmomma's Garden: One howlin 'wolf is awesome enough ... but three???
  • I think a certain wolf is starting to snarl about it being time for his story.
  • The Lakota say "we are all reletives", the wolf is our brother and deserves our respect.
  • Of all these the grey wolf is the most common, and is _par excellence the wolf_; but there are districts in which individuals of other colours predominate.

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