Noun: headhunter 'hed,hún-tu(r)
- A recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)
"The headhunter approached her with an exciting job opportunity at a tech startup"
- A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
"The anthropologist studied the rituals of headhunters in remote tribes";
- head-shrinker [informal]
Derived forms: headhunters
Type of: barbarian, recruiter, savage
Encyclopedia: Headhunter