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man hunt

man hunt is the alternative spelling of manhunt.

Meaning of manhunt

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.
    • 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.2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2019

Forms of man hunt

pluralman hunts

Questions about man hunt

What is man hunt the alternative spelling of?
Man hunt is the alternative spelling of manhunt.

Words near man hunt in the dictionary

  1. man hos
  2. man hour
  3. man hours
  4. man hug
  5. man hugs
  6. man hunt
  7. man in black
  8. man in motion
  9. man in the middle
  10. man in the mirror
  11. man in the moon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: man hunt (page history and authors); manhunt (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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