hunting

Definition

  • noun: the activity or sport of chasing and killing wild animals
  • noun: the act of one that 'hunts'
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: hawking, analog process, angling

Examples

  • They retained a 'head-hunting' firm to fill the position of chief executive officer.

  • We 'went hunting' for bear. = We 'went' bear-'hunting'.

  • The law prohibits the 'hunting' of migratory birds.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) who married the much taller automobile heiress Linda Ray Harmon. He ran through a fortune on race horses and show girls, until one day, out hunting, she mistook him for a deer. And Bobby met them all and shook their hands and joked with them, and heard their sad and happy stories, (..)
    2016 Café Society