(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
The bushwhackers remained at General Cooper′s camp several days, then crossed the Red River into Texas.
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(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
1967 April, Donald Keith, The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure, ''Boys' Life'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ROj2GiDixoMC&pg=PA51&dq=%22bushwhacker%22|%22bushwhackers%22+-intitle:%22bushwhacker|bushwhackers%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en…
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(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
: She stared at us. “Hardly. You must be from far off, not to know about Quantrill′s raids. Last March the bushwhackers rode into Aubrey, shot every man in town, stole everything, burned down houses.”
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