bushwhacker

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But just an hour outside Quito lies the Andean Chocó, a vast cloud forest teeming with exotic birds, pumas, ocelots and giant anteaters—and you no longer need to be an intrepid bushwhacker to enjoy it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

He was a familiar figure along the Appalachian Trail and other paths, a wiry 5-foot-7 bushwhacker wearing his trademark mesh angler’s vest and toting a snake sack and a pole called a snake hook.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

“I wonder in the long run if one of these days anyone will remember Quantrill,” he said, pointing out he already has been overshadowed by his bushwhacker subordinate Jesse James.

From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2015

Marie Viljoen padded through the woods in Prospect Park one recent morning like a Brooklyn-chic bushwhacker in cargo pants, tall leather boots and a shock of red lipstick.

From New York Times • May 31, 2011

I am, it is true, a nurse; but I am a bushwhacker nurse, perfectly independent, and free to act according to the dictates of my judgment.

From John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein by Stockton, Frank Richard