personhunt

English

Etymology

From person +‎ hunt, after manhunt.

Noun

personhunt (plural personhunts)

1. (rare) A manhunt.
   • 1977 September 23, Panther Sentinel, 47th year, number 2, Salinas, Calif.: Hartnell College, page 3:

     The Panther Sentinel is lauching^[sic] a mass personhunt in an effort to recruit photographers and writers.

   • 1986 March, Mark Brown, “Panegyric”, in Oh No! Noho!, number 10 / volume 2, number 4, Northampton, Mass., page 5, column 1:

     When I was in college one of my old high school girlfriends ritually slaughtered her infant child, and was consequently the subject of a thirteen-state personhunt.

   • 1991, Peter R. Emshwiller, The Host, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 165:

     The chief investigator on this massive personhunt is Sergeant Ogiv Fenlocki.

   • 2010, China Miéville, Kraken: An Anatomy, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 349:

     No matter how out of sight the Londonmancers were, obscured by the matter of the city of which they were functions, Billy and Dane were the targets of the greatest personhunt in memory, and they could not risk bringing that sort of attention to the enjarred god.