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- noun The
hunting ofanimals to be cooked as food. - noun Careless, profiteering
archeology .
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Examples
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Everyone knows Powell for what he is: a pothunting timeserver.
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Artifacts from federal cases, including many recovered by Schalk, are now on display in an exhibition about pothunting.
Riding for the Brand 2005
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Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic DE RIGUEUR off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap. —
Ulysses 2003
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My mother and my father began to talk about the fine points of the pothunting laws, and a minute later I gave in to my weariness.
KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE WILL HOBBS 1995
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They used false names at the motel, but with Tep providing their first names and their physical descriptions, plus the fact that they were brothers, the computer just might spit out who they are—especially if they have a history of pothunting.
KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE WILL HOBBS 1995
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They turned out to be Rodney and Duke Bishop, from an infamous pothunting family in southwestern Colorado.
KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE WILL HOBBS 1995
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Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic _de rigueur_ off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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