send bush

Verb

send bush (third-person singular simple present sends bush, present participle sending bush, simple past and past participle sent bush)

1. (Australia, transitive) To send away into the bush (etymology 3)
   • Being unable to bring him up to town because the river was in flood at the time, he had given him a good hiding and sent him bush.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 174
   • Faced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town.1962, William Leonard Joy, The Birth of a Nation: The Story of Early Australia, Specially Commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW, Shakespeare Head Press, p. 136...