DCHP-1 Online

bushwhacking ((adj.))

• 1 adj. early; pioneering.

  See also: bushwhacking ((n.))  

  • 1916  That bushwhacking era in finance had been pretty well trail-blazed by a number of shrewd Scotch-brained men. . . .

• 2 adj. prone to strike from ambush.

  See also: bushwhack (def. 1)  

  • 1916  . . . the "good man" was he who could knuckle the bushwhacking bully into a snivel. . . .