manhunt
nounUS /ˈmænˌhʌnt/
Etymology From man + hunt.
1
An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
- After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
2
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.
Playground games
- 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:
- Derived terms
- manhunter, manhunting, womanhunt