Bush: Encyclopedia - Bush

Bush

Bush is the name of some things and places, and a family name.

Bush - Things

Things commonly called Bush include:

• Bush – a particular shape of plant, largely synonymous with shrub;
• The Bush is a term used in several countries for rural, undeveloped land or country areas;
  • see also Alaskan Bush
• A Bush is a mechanical fixing designed to minimise wear between moving parts, or for providing a strengthened fixing point such as in the suspension of a car or other vehicle. They are often made from flexible material such as rubber;
• Bush – a popular rock band, named after the Shepherd's Bush district in London.
• Bush – short for Bushtarion, an online web based game.
• bush – a mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod;
• bush – (vulgar usage) pubic hair most often of a woman ("Keep bush where it belongs..."), or, by extension, the external genitalia of a woman, or by further extension, intercourse with a woman ("I got some bush last night"), or by extension, pejoratively, a woman.

Bush - Places

Places named Bush include:

• Bush, Louisiana.
• Bush House – a building in London, UK that for millions of overseas listeners represents a building from which the BBC broadcasts its foreign language programmes, the BBC World Service.

Bush - People

Bush - Members of the politically prominent Bush family

• Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator and financier, and his sons:
  • George H. W. Bush, U.S. President 1989–1993, his First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush, and their children:
    • George W. Bush, U.S. President 2001–, his First Lady Laura Welch Bush, and their daughters:
      • Barbara and Jenna Bush
    • John Ellis ‘Jeb’ Bush, Governor of Florida 1999, and his son
      • George P. Bush
    • Marvin Bush
    • Neil Bush, and his daughter
      • Lauren Bush
    • Dorothy Bush Koch

• Other children of Prescott Bush:
  • Jonathan Bush, and his son Billy Bush
  • Nancy Bush Ellis, and her son John Prescott Ellis
  • Prescott Bush, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth Bush

• James Smith Bush, grandfather of Prescott Bush, and Samuel P. Bush, father of Prescott Bush

Bush - Other people

• Donie Bush, baseball player and manager of the early 20th century
• Musician Kate Bush
• Robert Bush, Australian politician and English cricketer
• American actress Sophia Bush
• American scientist Vannevar Bush
• American college football player Reggie Bush

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