Meaning

2 senses
  1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

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

    Fahndung, Großfahndung, Verbrecherjagd

    пресле́дованиеpreslédovanije, ро́зыскrózysk, обла́ваobláva

    переслі́дуванняpereslíduvannja, ро́зшукrózšuk, обла́ваobláva

    an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)

  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.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The police have called off their manhunt.

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  2. The manhunt continued throughout the night.

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  3. There was a manhunt going on in the area.

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  4. Lorenzo and his friends played a great game of manhunt.

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  5. The manhunt was on.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From man + hunt.

From man + hunt.

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Forms

plural: manhunts
Singularmanhunt
Pluralmanhunts

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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