price on one's head

A reward for capturing or killing someone, usually someone guilty of a crime. For example, He was a serial killer, and they put a price on his head. The head in this term presumably alludes to the older punishment of beheading. [Mid-1700s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Charmaine	shahr-MAYN	English
Yaqub	-	Arabic
Nicolae	-	Romanian
Aleks	-	Russian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Polish
TÀMhas	-	Scottish
Ioann	-	Russian