bushwhacking Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb wait in hiding to attack
    scupper; lie in wait; lurk; bushwhack; ambush; waylay; ambuscade.
  2. verb live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
    bushwhack.
  3. verb cut one's way through the woods or bush
    bushwhack.
  4. adjective satellite lying in ambush
    • bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush

WordNet


Bush"whack`ing noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913