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head-hunting

1. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) the practice among certain peoples of removing the heads of slain enemies and preserving them as trophies

2. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) the recruitment, esp through an agency, of executives from one company to another, often rival, company

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US slang the destruction or neutralization of political opponents

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Head headhunt headhunter headhunting Naga			Head-hunting, cannibal beast of a human that was as much ape as human, nevertheless Old Ngurn had, according to his lights, played squarer than square. The Red One by London, Jack View in context I've seen a few unlikely things in these Solomons--rats two feet long, butterflies the Commissioner hunts with a shot-gun, ear-ornaments that would shame the devil, and head-hunting devils that make the devil look like an angel. Adventure by London, Jack View in context At the same instant Muda Saffir with fifty of his head-hunting Dyaks emerged from the jungle east of the camp, bent on discovering the whereabouts of the girl the Malay sought and bearing her away to his savage court far within the jungle fastness of his Bornean principality. The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context			head over heels Head pence head register head restraint head rhyme head sea head shop head smut head start head station Head stock head teacher head tone head trip head up head voice head waiter head wall Head wind head word head-banger head-butt Head-cheese head-first Head-hunter head-hunting head-in-the-clouds head-load Head-lugged head-on head-shrinker head-to-head head-up display headache headache powder headachy headband headbang headbanger headboard Headborough headbutt headcase headcheese headcount headcounter headdress headed headed notepaper header header-block			Head-banger Head-borough Head-butt Head-butting Head-butts Head-cheese head-down disease Head-Down Display Head-Down Neck Flexion Head-Down tilt Bed Rest Head-dress Head-dress Head-dress Head-dresses Head-dresses Head-dresses Head-driven phrase structure grammar head-dropping test Head-End Assembly Head-End Distribution Unit Head-End Gateway Head-end in the Sky Head-end power Head-first Head-first Head-first Head-first Head-hunter Head-hunter Head-hunter head-hunting head-in-the-clouds Head-Left-Right-Tail Head-Lexicalised Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar head-load Head-lugged Head-mounted display Head-mounted displays Head-Mounted Projective Display head-neck deviation head-on head-on Head-on shot Head-on shot Head-On-Gutted Head-Only Rotational Testing head-per-track head-per-track disk head-pulley-drive conveyor Head-Reading Head-Reading Head-Reading Head-sail Head-Shots Per Kill head-shrinker Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Head-Spine Model Head-stone Head-stone head-strict

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