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headhunter

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛdˌhʌntɚ/Part of speech nounSorted adeehhnrtuStarts with HEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies

Word origin

From head + hunter.

Used in a sentence

  • We were accommodated here in the verandah of the large house, in which were several great baskets of dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of head-hunters.
  • Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
  • Near-synonyms: recruiter, talent scout

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