noun
Meaning 1
A family or other group of wild wolves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wolfpack
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/ˈwʊlfpæk/
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noun
Meaning 2
During World War II, any of various marauding groups of submarines, especially German submarines that patrolled the North Atlantic and preyed upon merchant ships.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To gang up on a solitary target, in the manner of a pack of wolves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2017, September 6, Michael Gordon, "Online they were Heather, Megan and Kylie – adult men luring boys into making porn Sacramento Bee If a boy refused to take part, the predators would team up – Anderson called it "wolfpacking" – until the target complied
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From wolf + pack.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: глутница (glutnica) — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Chinese Mandarin: 狼群 (láng qún) — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Czech: vlčí smečka — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Dutch: wolvenroedel — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Dutch: roedel — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Esperanto: luparo — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Finnish: susilauma — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- French: bande — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- French: meute de loups — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- German: Wolfsrudel — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- German: Rudel von Wölfen — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- German: Rudel Wölfe — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Hungarian: farkasfalka — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Irish: conairt — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Italian: branco di lupi — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Japanese: オオカミの群れ (ōkami no mure) — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Malay: kawanan serigala — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Polish: wataha — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Portuguese: alcateia — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Russian: во́лчья ста́я (vólčʹja stája) — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Spanish: manada — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Swedish: vargflock — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Tibetan: སྤྱང་ཁྱུ (spyang khyu) — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Turkish: kurt sürüsü — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Volapük: lupem — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- Welsh: cnud — group of wild wolves — see also pack
- German: Wolfsrudel — group of submarines
- Hungarian: farkasfalka — group of submarines
- Portuguese: matilha — group of submarines
- Portuguese: alcateia — group of submarines
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