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headhunt

vb. 1 To cut off, and preserve, the heads of one's enemies 2 To actively recruit executive personnel 3 (context baseball English) To pitch at a batter head. 4 (context ice hockey English) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.

Usage examples of "headhunt".

He was a transfer, the result of some headhunt involving a parental unit: these were frequent among the Compounds.

The sorry practice of raiding and headhunting led me to believe the atrocities were the offshoot of feuding hatreds handed down since the uprising.

The boss begins pushing him harder than he would like but ambition still drives him and soon he is promoted - or headhunted, perhaps.

He'd never read the headhunting book, had never read any book, but he did have a Classic Comics version of The Count of Monte Cristo, which a sailor had given him in the days before the Shark People were forbidden to meet visiting ships.

They were the dark, beautiful descendants of headhunting pirates, dressed in hand-dyed sarongs and ancient plastic baseball caps.

Vederotta continues his cautious approach, but he’s throwing heavier shots now, headhunting, and Mears can do nothing other than walk forward and absorb them.

Truth be told, the ban on trading of shrunken heads had only reduced the scale of the headhunting enterprise.