Definitions for manhunts

manhunts man·hunt

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

Manhunts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in manhunts (ahmnnstu).

Definitions for manhunts

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 manhunts

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

Examples for manhunts

Now, a manhunt for the owners of a nursing home, just south of the city, was rough cosmic justice come at last.

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

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

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

It was not an especially auspicious beginning to their manhunt.

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

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

But the manhunt is unlikely to stop the street artist folk hero.

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

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

Word Value for manhunts
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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