BUSH

Bush

Bush are a British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. Dave Parsons joined Bush shortly after leaving the band Transvision Vamp. Drummers such as Sacha Gervasi, Amir, and Spencer Cobrin had all filled in as Bush drummers before Robin Goodridge was made the permanent fit and thus completing the Bush line-up.

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bush

Noun

[[Image:Buxus sempervirens 2.jpg|thumb|right|A bush 1 (shrub).]]

  1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
  2. A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
  3. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
  4. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
  5. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A tavern or wine merchant.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
    1. The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
      1. An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
    2. The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
  2. A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Noun (etymology 4)

  1. Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
    The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush.

Noun (etymology 5)

  1. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
  2. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
  3. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Verb

  1. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    to bush peas
  3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
    to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To furnish with a bush or lining.
    to bush a pivot hole

Adjective

  1. The noun "bush", used attributively.
    The bush vote; bush party; bush tucker; bush aristocracy; bush tea

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
    They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

Adverb

  1. Towards the direction of the outback.
    On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.


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