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has two meanings. One is to cut through heavy brush and other vegetation to pass through tangled country: "We had to do quite a bit of bushwhacking today to clear the new trail." The other meaning is to hide in such areas and then attack unsuspecting passers-by: "We were bushwhacked by the bandits as
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230:New Zealand
224:bushrangers
188:Tom Roberts
146:bush tucker
54:New Zealand
856:Categories
703:5 November
616:5 December
591:References
584:Wilderness
445:eucalyptus
413:la brousse
380:Mpumalanga
298:Wellington
234:See also:
216:bush music
172:Bush poets
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842:"Peanuts"
564:Bushcraft
499:Wairarapa
475:The verb
461:stockwhip
360:Afrikaans
302:East Cape
286:Fiordland
254:Fiordland
250:Lake Gunn
162:bushfires
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50:Australia
731:13 April
569:Bushland
537:See also
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328:Swanndri
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282:Taranaki
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200:folklore
186:such as
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105:shows a
42:The bush
530:Peanuts
453:bramble
449:banksia
437:bracken
417:le bois
387:Lowveld
384:Limpopo
372:savanna
364:die bos
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212:cricket
124:Outback
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