manhunt
[man-huhnt]
- an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- an intensive search for any person.
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Origin of manhunt
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Contemporary Examples
For them the 18-day search for the Israeli teens and the manhunt for their captors was tantamount to collective punishment.
A joint U.S.-Mexico security operation ended a 13-year manhunt for El Chapo, the head of the feared Sinaloa cartel.
Now, a manhunt for the owners of a nursing home, just south of the city, was rough cosmic justice come at last.
But the manhunt is unlikely to stop the street artist folk hero.
We tossed around a lot of words last week after the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers.
Historical Examples
They told how Tomo was wrought to a pitch of frenzied interest by this manhunt.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
The hunger for the manhunt is like the hunger for food, and Bill Dozier had been starved for many a day.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
It was not an especially auspicious beginning to their manhunt.
Agent Nine and the Jewel MysteryGraham M. Dean
But everybody seemed to know about the manhunt that was going on, here, there, and everywhere.
Danny's Own StoryDon Marquis
This made the dude keep still; but he did dislike this “manhunt” in the thick brush of Acorn Island.
The Girls of Central High in CampGertrude W. Morrison
manhunt
- an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive
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