bounty hunter

noun

: one who tracks down and captures outlaws for whom a reward is offered

: one who hunts predatory animals for the reward offered

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The state also pays bounty hunters to catch Burmese pythons through the FWC's Python Patrol program. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024 Blanchett portrayed an infamous bounty hunter who forms an unlikely alliance with a ragtag team of misfits while on a quest to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe. —

Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024 Is Teacup’s masked man the bounty hunter, while whatever is inside Arlo is the first alien? —

James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024 Jackson established that a state can effectively immunize an unconstitutional law from federal judicial review simply by using bounty hunters to enforce it. —

Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bounty hunter

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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