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/ˈhɛdˌhʌntɚ/ · noun
(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them..
We were accommodated here in the verandah of the large house, in which were several great baskets of dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of head-hunters.
Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
Near-synonyms: recruiter, talent scout
A headhunter called me out of the blue with an offer I couldn't refuse.
Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.
He is known as a goon and a headhunter.
Use headhunter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Headhunter means (anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them..
Common synonyms include recruiter, talent scout, head-shrinker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We were accommodated here in the verandah of the large house, in which were several great baskets of dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of head-hunters.
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