wolf down. To eat something very quickly or ravenously. A noun or pronoun can be used between "wolf" and "down." I hate the way he wolfs down his food at dinner so he can leave the table as quickly as possible.

Is it wolfing down or wolfing it down?

The right choice is to say people wolfed down their food, as if they were eating like a ravenous wolf in the wild. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, wolf was first used this way in the book The Seven Sons of Mammon in 1862, where the line reads “[She] used to wolf her food with her fingers.”

What does wolfing it down mean?

to eat a large amount of food very quickly: The boys wolfed the sandwiches (down) and then started on the cake.