[boo
sh-hwak, -wak] 
| 1. | to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc. |
| 2. | to travel through woods. |
| 3. | to pull a boat upstream from on board by grasping bushes, rocks, etc., on the shore. |
| 4. | to fight as a bushwhacker or guerrilla in the bush. |
| 5. | to fight as a bushwhacker; ambush. |
| 6. | to defeat, esp. by surprise or in an underhanded way: They bushwhacked our high school team when they used college players. |
| bush·whack (bŏŏsh'hwāk', -wāk') v. bush·whacked, bush·whack·ing, bush·whacks v. intr.
To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush. bush'whack'er n. |