bushranging en · NOUN
Etymology
From bush + ranging.
Meanings
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(Australia, historical, uncountable) The outlaw lifestyle of a bushranger.
It appeared that two lads of about eighteen had had their minds unhinged by bushranging literature, and for some imagined slight had murdered the mother and daughter.
1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 63: