单词 | party-hunting |
释义 | > as lemmasparty-hunting party-hunting n. and adj. ΚΠ 1829 J. Bentham Abridged Petit. Justice 53 in Justice & Codif. Petit. This species of chase:—party-hunting, to wit, and witness-hunting:—a chase in which the fox..is the hunter, and his object is to catch, not as early, but as late as possible. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. a22/5 The Times carried a story about doubling the number of party-hunting permits to cut the deer herd in New York State. 2002 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Local section) 23 In contrast to his past as a party-hunting wild child, new father Jason Donovan now likes to spend his nights with his family. < as lemmas |
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