head hunter—
1. a member of any tribe of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings:
- A chief named Dungdong had become a notorious head-hunter.
2. (coll.) an employment agent specializing in the recruitment of skilled personnel:
- McCulloch had no compunction about using these recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called “head hunters.”
skull hunter— = head hunter 1:
- In spite of the depredations of “skull hunters,” we rode a considerable distance over ground … thickly strewn with human bones.