bounty hunter
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈbaʊnti ˈhʌntər/
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cazarrecompensas
- The bounty hunter captured the fugitive and claimed the reward.
- hire a bounty hunter
- pay a bounty hunter
- bounty hunters track fugitives
And not once did I see my father and then bam, I'm in Maui and areas, maybe he's over there, maybe, you know, with Dog the Bounty Hunter, dude.
- And not once did I see my father and then bam, I'm in Maui and areas, maybe he's over there, maybe, you know, with Dog the Bounty Hunter, dude.
- They there often were Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, settlers, prostitutes.
- And she ends up saying you've gone the way of the others, the bounty hunters before you.
- But Lucas made the creative decision in the story to have Boba Fett and eight other bounty hunters there in that scene.
- He comes back to the world of, you know, the apartment building, and then he meets up with the bounty hunter.
- You standing in the yard and next thing you know, you know those bounty hunters come and fucking wheel off with your fucking calf and shit, They wheel off with all your tarsals.
Examples
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He's a bounty hunter under contract with the Pinkertons.
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There are bounty hunters and lawmen all over this county!
Fiction book (2001) -
I heard you was a bounty hunter.
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Ed, what did you do before you were a bounty hunter?
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Are you a bounty hunter?
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Some bounty hunters got after me.
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But somehow the bounty hunters found you anyway.
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You jump bail, and I swear I'll hire a bounty hunter to hunt you down.
Fiction book (1996) -
You guys are the dumbest bounty hunters I've ever seen!
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That's Rico... the best dang bounty hunter this side of the Pecos.
Synonyms
1
7.0
A person who finds and catches criminals who are running away
1
9.9
A person who catches criminals for money before modern police existed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'bounty' (a monetary reward) and 'hunter' (someone who seeks or pursues), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it denotes a person who seeks rewards. Although it has specialised modern uses (e.g. software bug bounties), the core compositional meaning is straightforward and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Bounty hunter: The term bounty hunter comes from a simple picture: a 'bounty' was money paid as a 'reward' for catching a dangerous animal or a criminal, and a hunter was the person who went after them, so it came to mean someone who captures animals or people for pay.