head-hunting
noun
the practice among certain peoples of removing the heads of slain enemies and preserving them as trophies
head-hunter
-
a word derived from
head-hunting.
Example Sentences
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The wife of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. left law practice to become a legal head-hunter.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
The selection was made in collaboration with head-hunter Spencer Stuart, which was hired by Orange’s board.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2022
Houston, the favorite to start at weak-side linebacker, considers himself “a head-hunter, a get-to-the-ball, sideline-to-sideline player.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
There is a third key demand of Woodward: to be a supreme head-hunter who lands a managerial big beast who can again make United a trophy-gobbling behemoth.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2015
He was a head-hunter, and in turn was to be hunted down.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
