Definitions

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  • noun the act of killing from ambush

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Examples

  • She'll be laying back, a big iron bushwacker eager for a dry-gulching.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • Periodically Eli is inconvenienced by dry-gulching cannibal bandits, but he has no problem dispatching such social refuse thanks to his mastery of the sword, bow, knife, shotgun, pistol, and Eastwoodian one-liner.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Periodically Eli is inconvenienced by dry-gulching cannibal bandits, but he has no problem dispatching such social refuse thanks to his mastery of the sword, bow, knife, shotgun, pistol, and Eastwoodian one-liner.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The dismal plans went on and on'the whores, the dry-gulching, the bank robbery, the runaway stagecoach.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

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