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What is a bushwhacker?

What is a bushwhacker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
  2. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
  3. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
  4. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
  5. A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
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Pool equipment and acc., patio furniture, window treatments, firewood, dehumidifier, lawnmower, bushwhacker.
Marie Viljoen padded through the woods in Prospect Park one recent morning like a Brooklyn-chic bushwhacker in cargo pants, tall leather boots and a shock of red lipstick.
But the bushwhacker from Africa achieved a surprising degree of success and, on his own initiative, founded the University of Hong Kong.
The words imported included some later considered to be typically Australian, such as bushwhacker and squatter.
Ten years later, rather than repeat that folly with the overgrown Rosaceae, I sought counsel from an experienced bushwhacker at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Chris Roddick, 48, an arborist and grounds foreman.
James, with the help of newspaper editors such as John Edwards, was cast in a political role, as Confederate guerilla, a bushwhacker, enemy of Grant and the corrupt Union.

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