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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The hunting of animals to be cooked as food. uncountable
2. 2
   Careless, profiteering archeology. uncountable

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of pothunt form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

From pot + hunting.

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