HARE AND HOUNDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hare and hounds mean? 

• HARE AND HOUNDS (noun)
  The noun HARE AND HOUNDS has 1 sense:

1. an outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot

  Familiarity information: HARE AND HOUNDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARE AND HOUNDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hare and hounds; paper chase

Hypernyms ("hare and hounds" is a kind of...):

game (an amusement or pastime)

 Context examples 

How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr's head, and all belonging to it!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)