"wolf up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: wolfs up [present, singular, third-person], wolfing up [participle, present], wolfed up [participle, past], wolfed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: dated, informal, transitive

Inflected forms

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