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bushwacker. The first bushwackers weren’t soldiers who hid in the woods or thickets carrying on guerrilla warfare. These bushwackers didn’t appear until the Civil War, almost 50 years after the first bushwackers got their name from pulling their boats up parts of the Mississippi by grasping bushes along the bank. In more recent time bushwacking has also come to mean making one’s way through unbroken forest, off the trail, by pushing bushes aside or breaking them. |