Usually means: Ambusher using concealment, often guerrilla.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word bushwhacker:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bushwhacker: Merriam-Webster
  2. bushwhacker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bushwhacker: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bushwhacker: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bushwhacker, bushwhacker: Wordnik
  6. bushwhacker: Wiktionary
  7. bushwhacker: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Bushwhacker, bushwhacker: Dictionary.com
  9. bushwhacker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Bushwhacker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bushwhacker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bushwhacker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. bushwhacker: Rhymezone
  14. Bushwhacker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. BUSHWHACKER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. bushwhacker: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bushwhacker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bushwhacker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bushwhacker, bushwhacker, bushwhacker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bushwhacker: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bushwhacker)

noun:  (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
noun:  (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
noun:  (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
noun:  (dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
noun:  A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).

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