Meanings
verbhunt up (third-person singular simple present hunts up, present participle hunting up, simple past and past participle hunted up)
present singular third person hunts up · participle present hunting up · participle past hunted up · past hunted up
- transitiveTo hunt for; to seek out.
She had agreed with Malone's conclusions. She had even hunted up a good deal of evidence of her own.
1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 20191 more example
The House Un-American Activities Committee was hunting up gays right along with Communists back in the early fifties.
1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 186
Cite this entry
APA
hunt up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hunt%20up
MLA
“hunt up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hunt%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hunt up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hunt%20up.
Source: hunt up on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.