1. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
   "We heard wolves howling in the distance"
    
2. A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
   "The notorious wolf was avoided by many at the party";
   - woman chaser, skirt chaser [informal], masher
    
3. A cruelly rapacious person
   "The dictator was a wolf, showing no mercy to his opponents";
   - beast, savage, brute, wildcat [informal]

1. Eat hastily
   "The teenager wolfed down the pizza";
   - wolf down [informal]

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

Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, canid, canine, classical scholar, classicist, composer, eat, ladies' man [informal], lady's man [informal], philanderer, womaniser [Brit], womanizer

Part of: Canis, genus Canis

Encyclopedia: Wolf, Michael