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head-hunt

head-hunt is the alternative form of headhunt.

Meaning of headhunt

Verb

headhunt (third-person singular simple present headhunts, present participle headhunting, simple past and past participle headhunted)

  1. (transitive) To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies.
  2. (intransitive) To actively recruit executive personnel.
  3. (intransitive) To pitch at a batter's head.
    • There's a brawl on the field because the pitcher has been headhunting throughout the game.
  4. (transitive) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.

Forms of head-hunt

third-person singular presenthead-hunts
present participlehead-hunting
past participlehead-hunted
pasthead-hunted

Questions about head-hunt

What is head-hunt the alternative form of?
Head-hunt is the alternative form of headhunt.

Words near head-hunt in the dictionary

  1. head-gaming
  2. head-hop
  3. head-hopped
  4. head-hopping
  5. head-hops
  6. head-hunt
  7. head-hunted
  8. head-hunter
  9. head-hunters
  10. head-hunting
  11. head-hunts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: head-hunt (page history and authors); headhunt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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