bushwack

English

Verb

bushwack (third-person singular simple present bushwacks, present participle bushwacking, simple past and past participle bushwacked)

  1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack.
    • 1975 July, The Barium Messenger, Barium Springs, NC, page 2, column 3:
      Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.
    • 2009 August 2, Peter Stevenson, “Easy to Be Hard”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Before Phillips puts on the rubber gloves and leads us through a psychoanalytic interpretation of kindness — complete with morsels like “in order to desire, men debase women; in order to desire, women keep their desires secret (even from themselves)” — the authors bushwack through the history of kindness.

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