Meaning

2 senses
  1. A warrior who collects the scalps of vanquished enemies.

  2. An agent who vets potential defectors.

Origin

From scalp + hunter.

From scalp + hunter.

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Forms

plural: scalphunters
Singularscalphunter
Pluralscalphunters

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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