Definitions for manhunt

manhunt man·hunt

Spelling: [man-huhnt]
IPA: /ˈmænˌhʌnt/

Manhunt is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in manhunt (ahmnntu).

Definitions for manhunt

noun

  1. an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
  2. an intensive search for any person.

Origin of manhunt

An Americanism dating back to 1835-45; man1 + hunt

Examples for manhunt

The hunger for the manhunt is like the hunger for food, and Bill Dozier had been starved for many a day.

For them the 18-day search for the Israeli teens and the manhunt for their captors was tantamount to collective punishment.

This made the dude keep still; but he did dislike this “manhunt” in the thick brush of Acorn Island.

It was not an especially auspicious beginning to their manhunt.

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.

A joint U.S.-Mexico security operation ended a 13-year manhunt for El Chapo, the head of the feared Sinaloa cartel.

We tossed around a lot of words last week after the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers.

They told how Tomo was wrought to a pitch of frenzied interest by this manhunt.

But everybody seemed to know about the manhunt that was going on, here, there, and everywhere.

Word Value for manhunt
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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