WOLF DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wolf down mean? 

• WOLF DOWN (verb)
  The verb WOLF DOWN has 1 sense:

1. eat hastily

  Familiarity information: WOLF DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLF DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat hastily

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

wolf; wolf down

Context example:

The teenager wolfed down the pizza

Hypernyms (to "wolf down" is one way to...):

eat (take in solid food)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They wolf down more bread

 Context examples 

As it was, he ran the young wolf down and killed and ate him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)