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hunt up en · VERB
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(transitive) To hunt for; to seek out.
She had agreed with Malone's conclusions. She had even hunted up a good deal of evidence of her own.
1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:The House Un-American Activities Committee was hunting up gays right along with Communists back in the early fifties.
1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 186:
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