bushwhack

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The more you bushwhack, the more your blade gets caked in blood.

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  1. intransitive verb To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.
  2. intransitive verb To travel through or live in the woods.
  3. intransitive verb To fight as a guerrilla in the woods.

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  • I was thinking bushwhack: get back in the tequilaria and hide behind the bar and blast him when he came back in. —  SixBadThings
  • Should we just abandon every wilderness trail and only allow people to bushwhack into publicly owned roadless areas? —  NewWest.Net All Headlines
  • The more you bushwhack, the more your blade gets caked in blood. —  SPIKE Featured Videos
  • The downside of having Daisy, an overfed 20-pound cockapoo, in the outdoors, was her unwillingness to push through the alders and tall grass on the lake's far shore for a short bushwhack in the forest. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • Not many people walk there from their houses, but it's possible, especially if you don't go down the wrong road and decide to bushwhack up the hills. —  Planet GNOME
 

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/ˈbəʃhwæk/
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