Usually means: Hike off-trail through vegetation.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bushwhack: Merriam-Webster
  2. bushwhack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bushwhack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bushwhack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bushwhack: Vocabulary.com
  6. bushwhack: Wordnik
  7. bushwhack: Wiktionary
  8. bushwhack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bushwhack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bushwhack: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bushwhack: Dictionary.com
  12. Bushwhack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bushwhack: Rhymezone
  14. bushwhack: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bushwhack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bushwhack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bushwhack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bushwhack: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bushwhack, bushwhack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bushwhack: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bushwhack)

▸ verb:  To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
▸ verb:  To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
▸ verb:  To ambush.

Similar:
ambuscade, lurk, scupper, ambush, lie in wait, waylay, bushbash, bush, underbrush, beat about the bush, more...

Opposite:
blaze trail, follow path, stick to road, hike on trail

Types:
poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, thorn bush, thorny bush, thorny shrub, more...

Adjectives:
short, long, mile, spanish, difficult, harsh, legendary

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Similar:
ambuscade, lurk, scupper, ambush, lie in wait, waylay, bushbash, bush, underbrush, beat about the bush, more...

Opposite:
blaze trail, follow path, stick to road, hike on trail

Types:
poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, thorn bush, thorny bush, thorny shrub, more...

Adjectives:
short, long, mile, spanish, difficult, harsh, legendary



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