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

County Museum of Natural History diorama of a simple red room wedged between a taxidermied wolf pack in the mountains on one side and polar bears on ice floes on the other.

From Los Angeles Times

That included staffing her post as the news came in that a convoy escorted by her future husband’s ship, the destroyer HMS Oribi, had been attacked by a U-boat wolf pack.

From Seattle Times

In the 1990s, about seven decades after the last wolf pack was killed in Yellowstone National Park, officials relocated 41 gray wolves to the park.

From Seattle Times

The bulk of those emissions occur before a visitor even spies a geyser or a wandering wolf pack.

From Science Daily

Those now include members of the Yowlumni wolf pack, which was discovered in the area last summer.

From Los Angeles Times