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Vinony

manhunt

noun

  1. deliberate identification, capturing, or killing of senior or otherwise important enemy combatants
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmænˌhʌnt/

noun

Etymology: From man + hunt.

  1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

    “After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.”

  2. 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.”