Complete Definition of "bushranger"

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bushranger

  1. (In early Australian history) a roving bandit who lived in the bush
  2. AU obsolete A person skilled in bush craft.

#: 1824: Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger — in the Australian (newspaper?). Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter II section 2, page 31.

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