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headhunter noun- a person who recruits others for specific jobs with specific firms, especially professionals and executives US, 1960
- “My father would never take a job I found for him. It would violate his competitive Type A standards.” “You’re probably right,” said Sheeni. “OK. I’ll pretend to be a headhunter and I’ll call him up.” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 99, 1993
- a psychiatrist US
- “Ah, fuck off you lousy bums. What do you know about death?” I scream at my two head-hunters. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 134, 1972
- an oral sex enthusiast US
- Head-hunters, cannibals and kid-fruits are fellators[.] — New York Mattachine Newsletter, p. 6, June 1961
- Hidden safely behind anthropological images of Amazonian tribes hunting enemy skulls for religious and decorative purposes, as the initiated of the jazz world knew, were the real headhunters, hip guys constantly seeking to receive or administer blow jobs. — Larry Rivers, What Did I Do?, p. 57, 1992
- a homosexual male US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 206, 1990
- a police officer assigned to investigate complaints of misconduct by other police US, 1965
- I wonder if Lieutenant Grimsely and all them IAD headhunters get a finder’s fee when they nail a cop. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, pp. 155–156, 1975
- a paid killer US
- — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 62, 1982
- a female who trades sex for money or drugs US
- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 76, 1995: “Black street gang terminology”
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