Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime).
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- noun An
organized search for acriminal orenemy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though Hood used the term "manhunt" to describe the search for Ozment, all his investigators could do when they found him was to serve a summons to appear for hearings in Hood's civil lawsuit.
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Though Hood used the term "manhunt" to describe the search for Ozment, all his investigators could do when they found him was to serve a summons to appear for hearings in Hood's civil lawsuit.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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Justice Cynthia Aaron dissented, saying the term manhunt suggested that law enforcement was involved.
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From BBC News: A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
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A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
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Ananova - Penis museum in manhunt: The world's only penis museum has appealed for a human specimen.
Archive 2007-08-26 Bill Crider 2007
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Wexley first proposed the key politicizing change — shifting the site of the manhunt from the Caribbean to South America — after reading a State Department White Paper by Cordell Hull that exposed Juan Perón's Nazi sympathies and his establishment of a protofascist police state in Argentina.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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They have a game they call manhunt and I think that they play with those.
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A city-wide manhunt is under way after a shooting on Saturday that injured two people.
Police Investigate Rougemont Shooting at cvillenews.com 2002
madmouth commented on the word manhunt
A bunch of bikini babes in a Sandra Dee film mocked our blushing heroine with, "Haven't you ever been to a manhunt? Come on, girls!"
also see mantrap
April 11, 2009