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To cry wolf means to raise a false alarm, derived from the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Cry Wolf may also refer to:

Music

• Cry Wolf (band), a heavy metal band
  • Cry Wolf (album), their first album
• "Cry Wolf" (A-ha song), a 1986 song
• "Cry Wolf" (Laura Branigan song), a 1987 song later covered by Stevie Nicks
• Cry Wolf (Cavo song), an album by Cavo
• "Cry Wolf", a song by Venom from the 1983 album At War with Satan
• "Cry Wolf", a song by Lisa Germano from the 1994 album Geek the Girl
• "Cry Wolf", a song by Jonathan Thulin from the 2015 album Science Fiction (Jonathan Thulin album)

Film and television

• Cry Wolf (1947 film), starring Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck
• Cry Wolf (1968 film), a British film produced by the Children's Film Foundation
• Cry Wolf (2005 film), starring Julian Morris and Lindy Booth
• "Cry Wolf" (The Professionals), 1983 television episode
• "Cry Wolf" (Thunderbirds episode), an episode of the television series Thunderbirds
• "Cry Wolf!", an episode of the television series Fireman Sam
• "Cry Wolf!", an episode of the television series The Raccoons

Literature

• Cry Wolf (novel), a 1976 novel by Wilbur Smith
• Cry Wolf (2008 novel), a 2008 fantasy novel by Patricia Briggs
• Cry Wolf (2020 book), non-fiction book by Harold R. Johnson

Video games

• "Cry Wolf", the last episode of the game The Wolf Among Us

See also

• Cry Wolfe, an American television show
• Never Cry Wolf, 1963 autobiographical work by Farley Mowat
  • Never Cry Wolf (film), its film adaptation
• The Cry of the Wolf, 1990 novel by Melvin Burgess
• Don't Cry Wolf (disambiguation)
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (disambiguation), two films of the same name