Definition of Headhunt

1. Verb. To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies ¹

2. Verb. To actively recruit executive personnel ¹

3. Verb. (baseball) To pitch at a batter's head. ¹

4. Verb. (ice hockey) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Headhunt

1. to seek out, decapitate, and preserve the heads of enemies [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headhunt

headful
headfuls
headgate
headgates
headgear
headgears
headgroup
headgroups
headgut
headhair
headhairs
headhouse
headhouses
headhunt (current term)
headhunted
headhunter
headhunters
headhunting
headhuntings
headhunts
headier
headies
headiest
headily
headiness
headinesses
heading
headings

Literary usage of Headhunt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... according to its terms, even against heirs who are infants or under other disability. Morgan v. headhunt Lodge, 53 Miss., 665; Hall v. ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"And though the company was also negligent in failing to use a headhunt, bv using which he might have been seen and the injury avoided. O'Keefe v. ..."

3. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"Among their principal customs may be noted the vendetta and the headhunt. The inhabitants of Torres Straits very much recall the Papuans; they have nothing ..."

4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"An offence headhunt & FLETCHER, Maid's Tragedy, p. 4. " — which Heaven and yon Know to be tougher than the hand of Time Can cut from man's remembrance. ..."

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