Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hunt v.

1. (Aus.) to drive away, to chase off.

[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Dec. 32/1: But, all the same, I’m not the sort of chap to hunt a man, / I’ll give him lodgings while he likes to stay; / And on Sundays let him snare some blanky ’possums – if he can; / I never turned a blanky man away!
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 9 July 16/4: ‘Hang the brute!’ said the boss, angrily – ‘hunt him out of the yard.’.
[Ire]Share Slanguage.

2. (US campus/gay) to search for a partner for romance or sex.

[Aus]N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 80: ‘You hunt girls, of course,’ he added.
[US]B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 56: to search for sex [...] hunt.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

hunt-buggy (n.) [buggy n.2 (1)]

(US gang) a police car.

[US]S. Yurick Warriors (1966) 71: That patrol car passed, but it seemed as if it was a block nearer. Or was it a different hunt-buggy—going a little faster than he thought it should?

In phrases

hunt a tavern fox (v.) [pun on SE fox/foxed adj.]

to get drunk.

[UK]J. Taylor ‘Life of Thomas Parr’ in Works (1870) 20: Nor did hee ever hunt a Taverne Fox, / Nere knew a Coach, Tobacco, o the Pox.
hunt the hay (v.)

see under hay n.

hunt the squirrel (v.) [the coaches veer from side to side as does a frightened squirrel]

of two coachmen, to attempt to upset each other’s vehicles as they race along a public road; typically one being a hackney coach, the other a stage.

[UK]G. Parker View of Society II 127: Squirrel-Hunting is a practice among Stage and Hackney-Coachman, who, when they are meet an inferior or aukward rider or driver endeavour to drive over or over-turn him. This they call Hunting the Squirrel.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Hunting the squirrel, an amusement practised by post boys, and stage coachmen, which consists in following a one horse chaise, and driving it before them, passing close to it so as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying any woman, or person that may be in it.
[UK]Sporting Mag. May XVIII 97/2: [as cit. 1785].
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict.
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.