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bush⋅whack⋅er

   [boosh-hwak-er, -wak-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that bushwhacks.
2. (in the American Civil War) a guerrilla, esp. a Confederate.
3. any guerrilla or outlaw.
4. Australian Slang. an unsophisticated person; hick.
Origin:
1800–10, Americanism; bush 1 + whacker
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bush·whack     (bŏŏsh'hwāk', -wāk')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   bush·whacked, bush·whack·ing, bush·whacks

v.   intr.
  1. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.
  2. To travel through or live in the woods.
  3. To fight as a guerrilla in the woods.
v.   tr.
To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.
bush'whack'er n.
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bushwhacking

adjective
lying in ambush; "bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush" 

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Bushwhacking

Bush"whack`ing\, n. 1. 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.

2. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [U.S.]

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