wolf

/wʊlf/ · noun

Meaning

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
A wolf tone or wolf note.
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, or maggot, which infests granaries.
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
To hunt for wolves.

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