"go bush" meaning in All languages combined

See go bush on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: EN-AU ck1 go bush.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes bush [present, singular, third-person], going bush [participle, present], went bush [past], gone bush [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> bush}} go bush (third-person singular simple present goes bush, present participle going bush, simple past went bush, past participle gone bush)
  1. (Australia, New Zealand) To abandon one's normal surroundings and live in the bush; to flee into the bush; to revert to a feral nature Tags: Australia, New-Zealand
    Sense id: en-go_bush-en-verb-bxtOX-tU Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, New Zealand English

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016 March 24, The New Zealand Herald",
          "text": "Taika Waititi and Sam Neill talk about going bush in the director’s latest childhood adventure, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.",
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          "ref": "2006, Regina Ganter, Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in Northern Australia, University of Western Australia Press, page 175",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125",
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