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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