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bounty hunter

bounty hunter noun: a person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.

Noun

bounty hunter (plural bounty hunters)

  1. A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.
    • Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the...2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25

bounty hunter meaning in Arabic

bounty hunter in Arabic

person who catches criminals in return for a reward
صَائِدُ ٱلْجَوَائِز ṣāʔidu l-jawāʔiz

Forms of bounty hunter

pluralbounty hunters

Questions about bounty hunter

What does bounty hunter mean?
Bounty hunter means a person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.
What is bounty hunter in Arabic?
Bounty hunter in Arabic is صَائِدُ ٱلْجَوَائِز (ṣāʔidu l-jawāʔiz). See Bounty hunter meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is bounty hunter?
Bounty hunter is a noun.
What is the plural of bounty hunter?
The plural of bounty hunter is bounty hunters.

Words near bounty hunter in the dictionary

  1. bountious
  2. bountiousness
  3. bountith
  4. bountiths
  5. bounty
  6. bounty hunter
  7. bounty hunters
  8. bounty jumper
  9. bounty jumpers
  10. Bountygate
  11. bountyhed

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