Warpath

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Warpath \War"path`\, n.
     The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike
     expedition. --Schoolcraft.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {On the warpath}, on a hostile expedition; hence,


        colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  warpath
       n 1: hostile or belligerent mood; "the chief is on the warpath
            today"
       2: a course leading to warfare or battle

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "warpath":
     aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity,
     belligerence, belligerency, chauvinism, combativeness,
     contentiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, hostility, jingoism,
     martialism, militancy, militarism, pugnaciousness, pugnacity,
     quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, truculence, unfriendliness,
     unpeacefulness, warmongering