Idiom
wolf down
Meaning
To consume (food) quickly or greedily, without regard for table manners.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He wolfed down his breakfast and ran out the door.”
“After skipping lunch, she wolfed down her dinner so fast she barely tasted it.”
“The starving hikers, having eaten nothing but trail mix for two days, wolfed down the hot stew with an abandon that shocked their hosts.”
Examples
simple
“He wolfed down his breakfast and ran out the door.”
contextual
“After skipping lunch, she wolfed down her dinner so fast she barely tasted it.”
complex
“The starving hikers, having eaten nothing but trail mix for two days, wolfed down the hot stew with an abandon that shocked their hosts.”
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