1. Wait in hiding to attack
   "The bandits bushwhacked the stagecoach";
   - ambush, waylay, lurk, ambuscade [archaic], lie in wait
    
2. Cut one's way through the woods or bush
   "The explorers bushwhacked their way through the dense jungle"
    
3. Live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
   "The rebels bushwhacked in the dense jungle for months"

Derived forms: bushwhacks, bushwhacking, bushwhacked

Type of: live, make, wait, work

Encyclopedia: Bushwhack