bush-bash

present singular third person bush-bashes · participle present bush-bashing · participle past bush-bashed · past bush-bashed

1. AustraliaNew ZealandalternativeAlternative form of bushbash.

   It is easier to move on the road than to 'bush-bash' – the path of least resistance being the easiest way to travel.

   2006, Trevor Carnaby, Beat about the Bush: Mammals, page 53

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   The hut was a good six-hour tramp south of hte pass, but he remembered that for the first hour or so, the track traversed the ridge above the township, and he figured that if he left the trail before it reached the edge of the Korowai Basin and cut west, then he could bush-bash down the hill and approach the Darvish property from the rear.

   2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 155

   Then there was the case of the heavily 'bubbly' (Pijin for pregnant) woman. Kastom (custom) dictated that she must not walk on the same track as we men; instead, she bush-bashed beside the track and made as good progress as the rest of us.

   2023, Mark Otter, Slips, Trips and Stumbles