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manhunt (複数形 manhunts)

1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

   After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.

2. (playground games) 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.
   • 2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2019-02-05:

     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.

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参考

• manhunt on Wikipedia.