wolf up

English

Verb

wolf up (third-person singular simple present wolfs up, present participle wolfing up, simple past and past participle wolfed up)

1. (transitive, informal, dated) To wolf down; to eat voraciously.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which the Reader is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 100:

     If he can stick to vegetables, too, he's all the better, but I can't preach that while I am wolfin' up ham and eggs.

Translations

wolf down — see wolf down

Anagrams

• upflow