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bushwack

bushwack is the alternative spelling of bushwhack.

Meaning of bushwhack

Verb

bushwhack (third-person singular simple present bushwhacks, present participle bushwhacking, simple past and past participle bushwhacked)

  1. To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
    • For hours we bushwhack through a study section of Jatun Sacha in search of Minquartia, sliding down muddy draws.1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 131
  2. To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
  3. To ambush.

Forms of bushwack

third-person singular presentbushwacks
present participlebushwacking
past participlebushwacked
pastbushwacked

Questions about bushwack

What is bushwack the alternative spelling of?
Bushwack is the alternative spelling of bushwhack.

Words near bushwack in the dictionary

  1. bushtucker
  2. bushveld
  3. bushvelds
  4. bushveldt
  5. bushwa
  6. bushwack
  7. bushwacked
  8. bushwacking
  9. bushwacks
  10. bushwah
  11. bushwalk

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