Definition of "manhunt"

manhunt

noun
plural manhunts
1. An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
2. (playground games) A variant of hide and seek in which a player who is caught by the seeker themselves becomes a seeker, and the final player remaining is declared the winner.
  Quotations
  Manhunt is a variant of hide-and-seek, she tells me. One person is the seeker. Everyone else hides. If the seeker finds you, you become a seeker, too.
  2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 2019-02-05