DCHP-3

bushwhack

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†v.

shoot at from ambush; attack in a stealthy, unfair manner.

Quotations

1912
"You laid among the trees an' bushwhacked him. A short shot."
1959
Following their usual pattern of trying to bushwhack any and all locals where Mine Mill is established . . . [they] found themselves in a blind alley. . . .
2†v.

prowl about the bush, as a hunter does for game.

Quotations

1956
I've got a number of surveying jobs for you--they piled up while you were bushwhacking up the river.