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wolf something down

Fig. to eat something very rapidly and in very large pieces. (As a wolf might eat.) Don't wolf your food down! Liz would never wolf down her food.

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It's the knee-high piles of dirty clothes and stinking trainers, the humungous amount of food they wolf down without pausing for breath, abandoned tubes of hair gel, mountains of wet towels, pumping music pounding from behind their bedroom door and the nights they roll in just as you're coming downstairs in your pyjamas. A son's love never dies. by The Mirror (London, England) For the amount of dosh she left, I'd also wolf down the odd worming tablet. Hypnosis has taken me back to my past life ...as Mr Whippy by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Instead I'll give him another 10 minutes so I can wolf down my sandwich, before getting him back up to start the fun all over again. 'If kids had an on-off switch, I'd be using it' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)			without a backward glance without a by your leave without a doubt without a hitch without a murmur without a second thought without a shadow of a doubt without batting an eye without fail without further ado without half trying without missing a beat without question without rhyme or reason without so much as a by-your-leave without so much as doing witness witness for witness to wives wobble about woe woe betide Woe is me! wolf wolf down wolf in sheep's clothing woman woman of ill repute women won won't bite won't bother me any won't breathe a word won't hear a word against won't hold water Won't you come in? wonder wonder about wonder at wonder if Wonders never cease! woo woo away wood wooden woods woods are full of woodwork wool word			wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf Wolf 359 wolf at the door wolf at the door wolf at the door wolf at the door wolf bean Wolf Bear Lion Scout Wolf berry Wolf Biermann Explosion wolf boy Wolf Camera Wolf Conservation Center Wolf Creek Educational Assistance Region Wolf Creek Generating Station Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site Wolf Creek Little League Wolf Creek Management Area Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Wolf Creek Reclamation District Wolf Creek State Park wolf cub wolf cub Wolf Cubs Wolf Cubs wolf dog wolf down Wolf Education and Research Center wolf eel wolf fish wolf fish Wolf Foreign Legion Wolf Guard Battle Leader Wolf Heinrich Reuter Wolf Hirshorn Wolf in a Spacesuit wolf in sheep's clothing wolf in sheep's clothing wolf in sheep's clothing wolf in sheep's clothing Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge Wolf Lake Middle School Wolf man Wolf man Wolf Meadow Elementary School Wolf Motor Function Test Wolf Mountain Conference Association Wolf net Wolf number wolf pack Wolf pack (submarines) Wolf Pack Child Care Wolf Pack Productions wolf packs

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