bushwhacker

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bush·whack·er / ˈboŏshˌ(h)wakər/ • n. a person who clears woods and bush country. ∎  a person who lives or travels in bush country.

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bushwhacker

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bushwhacker one who lives in wild uncultivated country; in the American Civil War, an irregular combatant with a group who had taken to the woods.

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