wolf down

Language: en

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Toconsume(food) quickly or greedily, without regard fortable manners.Hewolfed downa ham sandwich.1975,Mountain, numbers45–52,Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), page32, column 1:Carefully choosing a seat that gave him a good view of the action in the lobby, he started a non-stop barrage of questions as hewolfed downcups of coffee.1994July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, inLos Angeles Times‎[1]:Congressmen gleefullywolfed downevery imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs[…]

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary