manhunt

English

Etymology

man +‎ hunt

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Noun

manhunt (plural manhunts)

  1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
    After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
  2. (playground games) A variant of hide and seek in which a player who is caught by the seeker themselves becomes a seeker, and the final player remaining is declared the winner.
    • 2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 2019-02-05:
      Manhunt is a variant of hide-and-seek, she tells me. One person is the seeker. Everyone else hides. If the seeker finds you, you become a seeker, too.

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