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🤠 A reward catcher 💻 A bug finder
bounty hunter

bounty hunter

4.0
A person who finds and reports security bugs in software to earn money
  • noun
  • /ˈbaʊnti ˈhʌntər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : cazador de vulnerabilidades

Could you just explain what these open bounties mean to the people who are posting them and for anyone who might be a bounty hunter?

Examples

  • I'm here for the bounty hunter seminar.

    Domino (2005)

  • Would I be a bounty hunter if I just said -there's no bounty?

    The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

  • I hear you're a bounty hunter, Mr. Gashade.

    The Shooting (1966)

  • As a bounty hunter, she specialized in finding vulnerabilities in software systems for various tech companies.

  • Many security experts work as bounty hunters, looking for bugs that can earn them rewards from platforms.

  • He became a bounty hunter after discovering a passion for identifying software flaws and reporting them for money.

Synonyms

bug-hunter
vsbounty hunter
  • Jargon
4.0

A person who finds and reports software bugs and security problems

focuses on finding vulnerabilities specifically to earn company or platform monetary rewards

Surface Forms

bounty hunter singular
bounty hunters plural

Morphology

bounty + hunter

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: In tech, the modern bounty hunter keeps that same picture: a 'bounty' is a cash 'reward' offered for finding a bug, and a hunter is the person who searches for it, so it means someone who finds and reports security problems to earn money.