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The Collaborative International Dictionary
bushwhack

bushwhack \bush"whack`\ v. t. to lie in ambush for, lie in wait for.

Syn: ambush, scupper, lie for, waylay, lurk, ambuscade.

bushwhack

bushwhack \bush"whack`\ v. i.

  1. to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.

  2. to cut one's way through the woods or bush.

Wiktionary
bushwhack

vb. 1 to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress 2 to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country 3 to ambush

WordNet
bushwhack
  1. v. wait in hiding to attack [syn: ambush, scupper, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait]

  2. live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla

  3. cut one's way through the woods or bush

Usage examples of "bushwhack".

I wonder if it was that Mcentire woman or one of her men who hired that fella to bushwhack you?

Other than the bushwhack attempt on his life, the last couple of days had been free of trouble.

He eliminated the one that was stabbed in the alley, considering him as not part of the pattern since the others had obviously been bushwhacked by rifle fire.

Lay and cronies managed to destroy a vibrant economy in which Americans were enjoying unprecedented prosperity by bushwhacking our faith in the stock market.

This is what I call bushwhacking, a sort of argument that they must know any child can see through.

Castles believe that bushwhacking soldiers is the way to get rid of the fort.

He wondered if Virgil was truly capable of bushwhacking the soldiers with the type of weaponry that had been involved.

In Somalia, Persico and his team had been committed to help save the Ranger company that got bushwhacked trying to nab Aideed.

Texans from Dallas was friends of Belle Starr, and they aimed to find the yeller-bellied skunk that bushwhacked her.

Say, I wonder if it was that Mcentire woman or one of her men who hired that fella to bushwhack you?

Other than the bushwhack attempt on his life, the last couple of days had been free of trouble.

Were it not for the tireless efforts of the good folks at Publish America, of which the technical skills of Loretta Burdette proved especially useful, Bushwhacked would not be in print.

Chances were, long before the first weeping, rad-cancer lesions appeared on Grub's cheeks and hands, some other scrounger would have bushwhacked him for his meager bag of booty, or for exclusive mining rights to some especially promising hole.

Brigham ville had been bushwhacked long before they'd gotten this far.

Unless someone bushwhacks him or he dies of natural causes, I think we're in for a long, tough time of it.