(now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.

(informal) To perform a witch-hunt.

(idiomatic) A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.

(intransitive) To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt.

Describing a method of typing used by a person unfamiliar with the layout of a keyboard or keypad in which the person has to search for the keys to be pressed or struck one by one and uses one or both index fingers to operate the keys; also used to describe a typist who uses this technique.

(computing) The hunt-and-peck typing technique.

(transitive) to typewrite in an awkward, unskilled way, with two or even a single finger.

plural of witch-hunt

(by ellipsis) An Easter egg hunt.

A ghostly hunt that rides across the sky, common to English, German and Scandinavian folklore.