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bounty hunters

bounty hunters is the plural of bounty hunter.

Meaning of bounty hunter

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

Questions about bounty hunters

What is bounty hunters the plural of?
Bounty hunters is the plural of bounty hunter.

Words near bounty hunters in the dictionary

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

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