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Headhunting

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scalphuntingnoun(sometimes figurative) The warlike act of collecting the scalps of vanquished enemies.
beheadalnounbeheading
stalknounThe stem or main axis of a plant.
manhuntingnounOrganized searching for a criminal or enemy.
trophy huntingnounThe killing of a carefully selected animal, particularly big game, under or without government license to acquire a part of the animal, such as the head or skin, as a souvenir.
decollationnounThe act of beheading someone.
huntingnounThe act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
decapitationnounBeheading; the act of beheading or decapitating.
headsmannounAn executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
manhuntnounAn organized search for a criminal or enemy.
beheadingnounAn instance of a person being beheaded.
bloodhoundingnoun(figurative) A relentless pursuit.
price on someone's headnoun(idiomatic) A compensation for capturing or killing someone, especially a criminal.
broadheadnoun(bowhunting) A flat arrowhead with razor-sharp sides, intended to kill prey by causing severe bleeding.
minehuntingnounThe process of seeking out mines in order to destroy them.
bell shotnoun(hunting, firearms) A shot at an animal's head taken diagonally from behind.
headbuttnounA sharp blow delivered by driving the head into an opponent or object, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
deer stalkingnounThe hunting of deer by stalking, or stealing upon them unawares.
butcheringnounThe act by which someone or something is butchered, as:
hardheadnounOne who is practical or hardheaded.

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