wolf down

1. 1.

   eat hastily

   “The teenager wolfed down the pizza”

   Synonymswolf

   Broadereat

Questions about wolf down

What does wolf down mean?

wolf down means "eat hastily".

What is another word for wolf down?

Close synonyms include wolf. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wolf down a common word?

wolf down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.