manhunt

English

Etymology

From man +‎ hunt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

manhunt (plural manhunts)

1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

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

2. (playground games) 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.
   • 2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 2019-02-05:

     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.

Derived terms

• manhunter
• manhunting

 

Translations

organized search

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: прасле́дванне n (prasljédvannje), прасьле́дваньне n (prasʹljédvanʹnje), вы́шук m (výšuk), абла́ва f (abláva) (raid) Bulgarian: пресле́дване (bg) n (preslédvane), ха́йка (bg) f (hájka) Chechen: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 搜捕 (zh) (sōubǔ) Dutch: klopjacht (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ihmisjahti, etsintä (fi) French: chasse à l’homme (fr) f German: Menschenjagd (de) f, Fahndung (de) f Greek: ανθρωποκυνηγητό (el) n (anthropokynigitó) Hebrew: מָצוֹד (he) m (matsód) Italian: caccia all'uomo f Khmer: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: ха́јка f (hájka), по́тера f (pótera) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Polish: obława (pl) f, pościg (pl) m Russian: пресле́дование (ru) n (preslédovanije), ро́зыск (ru) m (rózysk), обла́ва (ru) f (obláva) (raid) Spanish: persecución (es) f, cacería (es) f, cacería humana f Thai: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: переслі́дування n (pereslíduvannja), ро́зшук m (rózšuk), обла́ва (uk) f (obláva) (raid)

See also

• manhunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia