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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
bush1 /bʊʃ/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. Botany[countable] a low plant with many branches that arise from near the ground.
  2. something resembling or suggesting this:[countable]a large bush of hair.
  3. [uncountable* usually: the + ~]
    • a large uncleared area covered with plant growth:Our cat disappeared into the bush that night.
    • a large, mostly uncleared area with few people.
Idioms
  1. Idioms beat around or about the bush, to avoid talking about a subject directly:beat around the bush for a while before asking for permission to marry their daughter.


bush.,  an abbreviation of:
  1. bushel.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bush1  (bŏŏsh),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Botanya low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
  2. Botanya small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
  3. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
  4. British TermsAlso called bush lot. [Canadian.]a small, wooded lot, esp. a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
  5. Zoologythe tail of a fox;
    brush.
  6. [Geog.]a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
  7. a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
  8. a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
  9. a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
  10. any tavern sign.
  11. Slang Terms(vulgar). pubic hair.
  12. [Archaic.]a wineshop.
  13. Idioms beat around or about the bush, to avoid coming to the point;
    delay in approaching a subject directly:Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want.
  14. Idioms beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide:beating the bushes for engineers.
  15. British Terms, Idioms go bush, [Australian.]
    • to flee or escape into the bush.
    • [Slang.]to become wild.

v.i. 
  1. to be or become bushy;
    branch or spread as or like a bush.

v.t. 
  1. to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.

adj. 
  1. bush-league.
  • bef. 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush
bushless, adj. 
bushlike′, adj. 

bush2  (bŏŏsh),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Metallurgya lining of metal or the like set into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction, erosion, etc.
  2. Metallurgya bushing.

v.t. 
  1. Metallurgyto furnish with a bush;
    line with metal.
  • Middle Dutch bussche; see box1
  • 1560–70

Bush  (bŏŏsh),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical George (Herbert Walker), born 1924, U.S. politician: vice president 1981–89; 41st president of the U.S. 1989–93.
Van•ne•var  (və nēvär, -vər),USA pronunciation 1890–1974, U.S. electrical engineer: education and research administrator.
bush., 
  1. Weights and Measuresbushel;
    bushels.

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