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wolfs

/ˈwʊlfz/

wolfs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wolf.

wolfs is the misspelling of wolves.

wolfs is the nonstandard form of wolves.

Meaning of wolf

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
    • "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150
    Synonyms:
    gulp down, wolf down
  2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
    • [1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing...1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
  3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

See all 16 meanings of wolf

Proper noun capitalized: Wolfs

Wolfs

  1. (plural) plural of Wolf

Phrases with wolfs

Questions about wolfs

What is wolfs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wolfs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wolf.
What part of speech is wolfs?
Wolfs is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wolfs?
Wolfs is pronounced /ˈwʊlfz/.

Words near wolfs in the dictionary

  1. wolframites
  2. wolframium
  3. wolframophosphate
  4. wolframophosphates
  5. Wolfring's glands
  6. wolfs
  7. wolfs back
  8. wolfs down
  9. wolfs up
  10. wolfsangel
  11. wolfsangels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wolfs (page history and authors); Wolfs (page history and authors); wolf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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