bushwhacking ((adj.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

early; pioneering.

Quotations

1916

That bushwhacking era in finance had been pretty well trail-blazed by a number of shrewd Scotch-brained men. . . .

2adj.

prone to strike from ambush.

See: bushwhack(def. 1)

1916

. . . the "good man" was he who could knuckle the bushwhacking bully into a snivel. . . .