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bush-fighter|ˈbʊʃˌfaɪtə(r)|
An irregular combatant or skirmisher, accustomed to fight in the bush; one who fires from among the bushes.
1760Wesley Jrnl. 22 Nov. (1827) III. 27 If it should happen, that any one of these silly bush-fighters steps out into the plain. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 343 Cornwallis and Burgoyne had been over-reached by the despicable bush-fighters opposed to them. 1857Mayne Reid in Chamb. Jrnl. VII. 363 Not so much with the eye of a soldier, as with that of a hunter and bush-fighter. |