The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bushwhacking \Bush"whack`ing\, n.
Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.]
--T. Flint.The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress 2 fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country 3 criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/George%20W.%20Bush, in forums and discussions v
(present participle of bushwhack English)
WordNet
adj. lying in ambush; "bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush"
Usage examples of "bushwhacking".
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.
The trees and bushes were so thick, they hid things till too late, and made the battle more a series of bushwhackings and ambushes than a proper standup fight.