manhunt
US/ˈmænˌhʌnt/
manhunt noun: an organized search for a criminal or enemy.
Noun
manhunt (plural manhunts)
- An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
- After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
- 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
manhunt meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada
manhunt in Urdu
- آدم کھوج
manhunt in Bengali
- ম্যানহান্ট
manhunt in Telugu
- మాన్హంట్
manhunt in Kannada
- ಮಾನ್ಹಂಟ್
More languagesFewer languages
- manhunt in Gujarati
- મેનહન્ટ, મેનહંટ, મેનહુન્ટ
- manhunt in Nepali
- म्यानहन्ट, म्यानहुन्ट, म्यानहान्ट
Forms of manhunt
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Origin of manhunt
From man + hunt.
Words formed from manhunt
Questions about manhunt
- What does manhunt mean?
- Manhunt means an organized search for a criminal or enemy.
- What is manhunt in Urdu?
- Manhunt in Urdu is آدم کھوج. See Manhunt meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is manhunt?
- Manhunt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce manhunt?
- Manhunt is pronounced /ˈmænˌhʌnt/ (US).
- What is the plural of manhunt?
- The plural of manhunt is manhunts.
Words near manhunt in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: manhunt (page history and authors); manhunt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manhunt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manhunt (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manhunt (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manhunt (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manhunt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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