manhunt

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Name one other incident where an international manhunt was conducted for what basically amounted to a groping charge.

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An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

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noun

An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

noun

(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.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for manhunt.

noun

An organized search for a criminal or enemy.

noun

(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.

Example sentences

Name one other incident where an international manhunt was conducted for what basically amounted to a groping charge.

If it were, the FBI wouldn't be gearing up for a nationwide manhunt to track these people down.

GP is implying, as was quite clear in the comment, that it isn't worth an international manhunt.

The two suspects were identified and the manhunt began because an ID one of them left behind in their car.

But the Wii had Manhunt 2 and Madworld and the DS had GTA: China Town Wars?

The massive manhunt, whatever the intelligence apparatus contributed, the shutting down of Boston and suburbs...

All of this manhunt would have been in vain for so long.

I remember when something like this was being done during the manhunt for the boston bombers.

The last thing HN needs is a Reddit-style Boston Marathon fake manhunt.

Critical infrastructure was breached and the authorities' response was to go on a manhunt for people who were by that point obviously not a threat.

The NSA didn't have to analyze anything: Snowden was not a known target, and he revealed himself before any real manhunt or mass-analysis had started.

So this is basically the opening act of a giant manhunt?

Proper noun examples

> nanny-state measures (protect children from bad influences) Putting age labels on things is all fine and good, but if kids can go to any store and legally buy things like the Doom series, or Manhunt, without requiring their parents, then that's a bit of a farce.