| 释义 |
ˈbushwhack, v. U.S.
[f. bush + whack v. to beat; prob. after bushwhacker.]
To act as a bushwhacker; to beat the bush; to attack or kill in the manner of a bushwhacker (sense 2).
1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 613 The Colonel had begun to make a speech, or, as he phrases it, ‘to bushwhack in the most approved style’. 1866J. E. H. Skinner After Storm I. 234 While peaceable citizens were robbed with impunity and government officers were bushwhacked. 1877G. Fleming Mirage III. viii. 212 A good many men were missing, shot or bushwhacked, we did not know which. |