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wolf up en · VERB

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1. (dated, informal, transitive) To wolf down; to eat voraciously.
   • 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. 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:

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