Definition of "bushranger" [bush•ran•ger]

• One who lives in the wilderness. (noun)
• An outlaw living in the Australian bush. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Becky, the servant, had utterly collapsed at the word bushranger; the other two faces looked as if carved in stone."
• "The word bushranger struck terror into the hearts of all present, and even the jealous husband modulated his wrath, and rubbed his head with some degree of contentment."
• "There is a romance to the word bushranger that the modern terms sociopath, or career criminal, just simply don't evoke, and in the 1860s our sleepy little region had its own bushranger:"