"bush-bash" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bush-bashes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bush-bash (third-person singular simple present bush-bashes, present participle bush-bashing, simple past and past participle bush-bashed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bushbash"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Trevor Carnaby, Beat about the Bush: Mammals, page 53",
          "text": "It is easier to move on the road than to 'bush-bash' – the path of least resistance being the easiest way to travel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 155",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Mark Otter, Slips, Trips and Stumbles",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bushbash"
      ],
      "id": "en-bush-bash-en-verb-mDTf2mU5",
      "links": [
        [
          "bushbash",
          "bushbash#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) Alternative form of bushbash"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bush-bash"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bush-bashes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bush-bashed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bush-bash (third-person singular simple present bush-bashes, present participle bush-bashing, simple past and past participle bush-bashed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "bushbash"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Trevor Carnaby, Beat about the Bush: Mammals, page 53",
          "text": "It is easier to move on the road than to 'bush-bash' – the path of least resistance being the easiest way to travel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 155",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Mark Otter, Slips, Trips and Stumbles",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of bushbash"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bushbash",
          "bushbash#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) Alternative form of bushbash"
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bush-bash"
}