wolfing back
Gulping food fast
Wolfing back means eating rapidly and greedily, consuming food with urgent, animal-like haste: He was wolfing back pizza like he hadn't eaten in days.
The phrase evokes how wolves devour prey.
Back adds emphasis to the swallowing action, suggesting food disappearing quickly down the throat.
Compare *wolfing down*.
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- scarfingEating very quickly
- scarfing downEating very quickly
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- gobblingEating fast and messily
devouring · gorging · insatiable · starving · feeding frenzy · messy · feral · sloppy · gluttonous · inhaling · inhaling food · voracious · chomping · chowing down · hurried · bolting · munching · craving
eating speed
wolfing backnibbling
Eating in small bites
picking at · taking one's time · pecking at · grazing · abstaining
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