wolf pack

noun

1. a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
2. a group of wolves hunting together.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wolf pack¹

1890–95 wolf pack fordef 2; 1940–45 wolf pack fordef 1

Example Sentences

In this wolf pack vision, the robots attack with weapons ranging from machine guns to missiles or loitering drones.

From Popular-Science

For the moment, most of those wolf packs are concentrated in the remote northeastern corner of the state, where they often come into conflict with ranchers.

From Popular-Science

In the summertime, bulky prey like moose and deer are well-nourished, making them harder for wolf packs to bring down.

From Popular-Science

It eschews the old, dominating, Cesar Millan–style methods that were based on flawed studies of presumed hierarchies in wolf packs.

From Time

The female wolf pack leader who so enchanted the men charged with tagging her.

From The Daily Beast

Originally, Prinze says he thought he was auditioning for a show called Wolf Pack.

From The Daily Beast

They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”

From The Daily Beast

In my real wolf pack, all the guys around me are a lot wilder than I am.

From The Daily Beast

Did it afford you a lot more hang time with the guys, since you're basically the fourth member of the Wolf Pack in this movie?

From The Daily Beast

But ghosts wouldn't be giving signals of the Wolf Pack, would they?

From Project Gutenberg

And Charley fights a wolf pack, and knocks one of un over with an ax.

From Project Gutenberg

But now, when he was so expectant, the wolf-pack seemed to find business elsewhere.

From Project Gutenberg

The vicious, mauling wolf-pack of the river heaved us into the air, and worried us as we fell.

From Project Gutenberg

He shivered as a howl sounded loudly and echoed, bearing the age-old warning of a wolf pack, hungry and a-hunt.

From Project Gutenberg