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hunt's-up

[ huhnts-uhp ]

noun

  1. (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hunt's-up1

1530–40; from phrase ( the ) hunt is up

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Example Sentences

If he hunts up my address on Madison Avenue, the hall boy will send him there.

Nash, who had a vehement style; his "Hunts-up," a song which obtained him "much favor," was one of his most celebrated efforts.

But when he saw that ox, he just opens the tin box and claps the creature inside and then hunts up Ossy.

Juliet says of the lark's song, 'that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day.'

If not he gets out the little guide book he carries, and patiently hunts up the street or the building you want.

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