Bushwhacking

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The action of pushing one's way through bushes or thickets; the hauling of a boat along a stream bordered by bushes by pulling at the branches.
  • noun. The practice of attacking from behind bushes, as a guerrilla; irregular warfare carried on by bushwhackers.
  • noun. The cutting of bushes with a bushwhacker.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
  • noun. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
  • noun. fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
  • noun. criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
  • verb. Present participle of bushwhack.
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  • adjective. lying in ambush
  • Word Usage
    "This is what I call bushwhacking, a sort of argument that they must know any child can see through."
    Equivalent
    concealed  
    verb-stem
    bushwhack