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bushwhack Definition


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bushwhack
verb
    (originally and especially N Amer)
    1. To ambush someone usually in rough country.
    (N Amer, Austral etc)
    intr
    2. To travel through woods or bush, especially by clearing a way through it.
    (N Amer)
    intr
    3. To fight in guerrilla warfare in bush country.
    (Austral, NZ)
    intr
    4. To work in the bush, especially as an unskilled labourer felling trees, etc.
Derivative: bushwhacking
noun
    Etymology: 19c: back-formation from bushwhacker.



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