bushwhacking
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈbʊʃˌhwækɪŋ/
- US
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emboscada
- He was just some bushwhacking John Law!
- days of bushwhacking
- trail bushwhacking
Examples
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The Union should be happy to just keep the status quo and wait until the Great Bushwhacking Depression is over to negotiate from a position of strength.
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Hell, spent two nights trackin' this bushwhacking bastard... and his Confederate friends through the Sni-A-Bar.
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And when you tally up all those fights and bushwhackings and cold camps... ...that time in Lincoln County, five weeks in the hospital... ...six months out of work.
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And no sidewinding, bushwhacking, hornswoggling... ...cracker croaker is gonna ruin my biscuit cutter!
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Alas, the only way to get to this area appeared to involve traipsing through a scrubby wooded area, which didn't really surprise me, as some of the posts on the birder's forum had mentioned bushwhacking.
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And now for the bushwhacking: we stumbled through a scrubby mess of floodplain filled with tiny trees with crowded branches and the usual mix of floodplain detritus: fallen trees, washed-up garbage.
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The soldiers practiced bushwhacking tactics to ambush their enemies in the dense forest.
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After a long day of bushwhacking through the underbrush, we finally reached the hidden campsite.
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The team specialized in bushwhacking, using surprise attacks to disrupt enemy supply lines.
Synonyms
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6.8
To hide and wait to attack someone by surprise
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9.0
To attack someone suddenly from a hidden place
To hide and then suddenly attack someone
Antonyms
How Sudden
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bushwhacking joins bush, a word for 'small trees or thick plants', and whack, meaning 'to hit'. It originally meant hiding in the bushes to suddenly hit someone, so today it describes lying in wait to ambush or attack suddenly.