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personhunt en · NOUN

Etymology

From person + hunt, after manhunt. Coined as a gender-neutral alternative.

Meanings

1. (rare) A manhunt.
   • No matter how out of sight the Londonmancers were, obscured by the matter of the city of which they were functions, Billy and Dane were the targets of the greatest personhunt in memory, and they could not risk bringing that sort of attention to the enjarred god. 2010, China Miéville, Kraken: An Anatomy, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 349:
   • When I was in college one of my old high school girlfriends ritually slaughtered her infant child, and was consequently the subject of a thirteen-state personhunt. 1986 March, Mark Brown, “Panegyric”, in Oh No! Noho!, number 10 / volume 2, number 4, Northampton, Mass., page 5, column 1:
   • The Panther Sentinel is lauching^([sic]) a mass personhunt in an effort to recruit photographers and writers. 1977 September 23, Panther Sentinel, 47th year, number 2, Salinas, Calif.: Hartnell College, page 3:
   • The chief investigator on this massive personhunt is Sergeant Ogiv Fenlocki. 1991, Peter R. Emshwiller, The Host, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 165:

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