headhunter

headhunter
   1. American
   a police internal disciplinaiy inspector
   His quarry is any dishonest policeman:
    Headhunters made rank consistently better than other investigators. (Wambaugh, 1975)
   2. a recruiting agent
   Again punning on the practices of primitive tribes, and now standard English. It is considered chic for someone changing a managerial job to indicate his importance (and vanity) by saying he had been headhunted:
    'You came here in 1995 by invitation.' 'You could say I was head-hunted.' (P. D. James, 2001)

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