What is "bushwack"

Usage examples of "bushwack".

Flo as a foil, and try to bushwack me was something I could not quite conceive.

He sighed, thinking of the time four relatives of the previous Cavalry leader had attempted to bushwack Kilrane.

Goldman and Cohen got paroled last fall, but they got bushwacked in July and Davey got his brains scrambled.

So when he saw the flash, heard the gun shot, felt that ball smack into the boat at the waterline, however much he may have felt like killing himself before, the idea that someone was deliberately trying to murder him must have brought all his natural instincts toward self-survival leaping to the surface, must have armed and nerved him with the decision to escape, if for no better reason than to get the bushwacking coward who was trying to get him.

I wounded another bushwacker and we had a little talk before I let him go.

Since before Melanie had been killed in a Bushwacker raid on their farm.

To be defeated by sorcery was a permissible defeat for a mundane-hard as that admission would be for himbut to be bushwacked by a band of ragtag youths was abysmal incompetence.

To be defeated by sorcery was a permissible defeat for a mundane—hard as that admission would be for himbut to be bushwacked by a band of ragtag youths was abysmal incompetence.

He couldn't even be accused of being yellow, not after the way they'd bushwacked the Tartessian patrol.

He couldn’t even be accused of being yellow, not after the way they’d bushwacked the Tartessian patrol.

He saw now why the men's reaction was to obliterate: it was an invariable rule when a marine was bushwacked dead.

You go tell Morton Colton that if he's got anything to say to me, he can say it out in the open where he can't bushwack me from a window or a door or from around the side of the building.

Their agenda was bushwacked by the hippies, though, a year or two after people like the Buffalo Springfield and Joni Mitchell had gotten their start on Yorkville Avenue, in venues like the Riverboat and the Myna Bird.