manhunt
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manhunt
- /ˈmænˌhʌnt/ US
Where it comes from
From man + hunt.
noun manhunts
- An organized search for a criminal or enemy. After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
- 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. 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hunted, hunt, hunting, chasing, tracing, trace, tracking, chase, pursuit, pursuing, pursue, manhunting, minehunting, headhunting, stalk, witch-hunt
Translations
Every language
noun organized search
| Español | persecución, cacería, cacería humana |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 搜捕 sōubǔ |
| Français | chasse à l'homme |
| Deutsch | Fahndung, Großfahndung, Verbrecherjagd, Menschenjagd |
| Italiano | caccia all'uomo |
| Ελληνικά | ανθρωποκυνηγητό anthropokynigitó |
| Русский | пресле́дование preslédovanije, ро́зыск rózysk, обла́ва obláva |
| עברית | מָצוֹד matsód |
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