Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The action of pushing one's way through bushes or thickets; the hauling of a boat along a stream bordered by bushes by pulling at the branches.
- noun The practice of attacking from behind bushes, as a guerrilla; irregular warfare carried on by bushwhackers.
- noun The cutting of bushes with a bushwhacker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
- noun U.S. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
travelling through thickwooded country , cutting awayscrub to makeprogress - noun
fighting , as aguerilla , especially in wooded country - noun
criticizing , by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions - verb Present participle of
bushwhack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lying in ambush
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Examples
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This is what I call bushwhacking, a sort of argument that they must know any child can see through.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837
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This is what I call bushwhacking, a sort of argument that they must know any child can see through.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 Abraham Lincoln 1837
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Firstly: Collette's family has experienced this kind of "bushwhacking" behaviour from the people who are supposed to care for her Dad.
Death, Beacon, some anime Yaoi, boy and girl pics and me on the BBC Elizabeth McClung 2008
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The poor are clamoring for bread, and many of them have taken to "bushwhacking" as their only means of living.
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Hardwick said he's often looked toward the mountains west of Thomas Creek, considering entering the area by "bushwhacking" cross-country.
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"bushwhacking"; but the old man gave them little satisfaction.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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"bushwhacking" warfare, intensified and kept alive by annual roving
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866
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This was a precaution against any bushwhacking bullet from the mangroves only a hundred feet away.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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Manager Jim Leyland on a rained-out bushwhacking RHP Jeremy Bonderman had Friday night, when he allowed five runs on six straight hits with one out in the third inning.
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Because the goal in litigation is to beat the other side; and one way to do that is to resist producing documents and information during discovery in the hope of bushwhacking the other party at trial.
Curtis Harrison: Facing Divorce in an Uncertain Economy with Collaborative Law Curtis Harrison 2011
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