lone wolf

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1. 1

   A wolf that is not part of a pack.

   • They knew what it meant; even Joan had heard the cry of the lone wolf hunting in the lean time of winter, and of all things sad, all things lonely, all things demoniacal, the howl of a wolf stands alone.
2. 2

   A person who avoids the company of others

   A person who avoids the company of others; an independent or solitary person; a loner.

   • Don't be a lone wolf. Publish your results; take the world—take the nation at least—into your confidence.
   • I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part.
   • You'll never mix in. You'll be a lone wolf. I seen that right off. Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.
3. 3

   A criminal who acts alone, not as part of a group.

   • [Stephen] Paddock's motives remain unclear. Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the shooting as a "lone wolf" attack. "We have no idea what his belief system was," he said.
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      A town in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States.

The neighborhood