headhunter
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[edit]Noun
[edit]headhunter (plural headhunters)
- (anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
- One who recruits senior personnel for a company.
- She was the best headhunter they had ever seen.
- (baseball) A pitcher who throws at the batter's head.
- Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.
- (ice hockey) A player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.
- He is known as a goon and a headhunter.
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → German: Headhunter m
Translations
[edit]practitioner of headhunting
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recruiter
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