trophy-hunt

Verb

trophy hunt (third-person singular simple present trophy hunts, present participle trophy hunting, simple past and past participle trophy hunted)

1. (intransitive) To engage in trophy hunting.
   • Hunters never say “we want to trophy hunt because we want to mount the head,” [Wayne] Pacelle said. “They always apply something to it. They could just give the money for conservation. But they want something out of it.”2017 November 20, Darryl Fears, “Hunters are livid over Trump’s elephant trophy decision”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
2. (transitive) To hunt (an animal) as part of a trophy hunt.
   • In South Africa, it’s still legal to “trophy hunt” the white rhino, which [Anna] Merz and others find reprehensible.1992 December 17, Michael Granberry, “Vanishing Act: Animals: A world without the homely rhino? […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC...

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