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war·path

 (wôr′păth′, -päth′)
n.
1. A course that leads to warfare or battle.
2. A hostile course or mood: The boss is on the warpath today.
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warpath

(ˈwɔːˌpɑːθ)
n
1. (Anthropology & Ethnology) the route taken by North American Indians on a warlike expedition
2. (Historical Terms) the route taken by North American Indians on a warlike expedition
3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) preparing to engage in battle
4. (Military) preparing to engage in battle
5. informal in a state of anger
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war•path

(ˈwɔrˌpæθ, -ˌpɑθ)

n., pl. -paths (-ˌpæðz, -ˌpɑðz, -ˌpæθs, -ˌpɑθs)
the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
Idioms:
on the warpath,
a. ready for or engaged in fighting.
b. extremely hostile.
[1745–55, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.warpath - hostile or belligerent moodwarpath - hostile or belligerent mood; "the chief is on the warpath today"
belligerence, belligerency - hostile or warlike attitude or nature
2.warpath - a course leading to warfare or battle
path, way of life, way - a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
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Translations

warpath

[ˈwɔːpɑːθ] N to be on the warpath (lit) → estar en pie de guerra (fig) → estar dispuesto a armar un lío
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warpath

[ˈwɔːrpɑːθ] n
to be on the warpath → être sur le sentier de la guerre
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warpath

[ˈwɔːˌpɑːθ] n to be on the warpath (fig) → essere sul sentiero di guerra
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Navy, 1839; The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea, 1840; Mercedes of Castile, 1841; The Deerslayer, or the First Warpath, 1841; The Two Admirals, 1842; The Wing-and-Wing (Jack o Lantern), 1842; The Battle of Lake Erie, or Answers to Messrs.
No -- better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, bristling with feathers, hideous with paint, and prance into Sunday- school, some drowsy summer morning, with a blood- curdling war-whoop, and sear the eyeballs of all his companions with unappeasable envy.
Every Elliott and Crawford and MacAllister is on the warpath, loaded for bear.
"Yep, she was on the warpath all day after I mentioned it.
His nation would not go on the warpath, because they did not think it well, but their friends have remembered where they lived."
The Tharks paid him not the slightest attention; they were not out upon the warpath, and the only sign that I had that they had seen him was a quickening of the pace of the caravan as we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus.
I am in elegant France now, and not scurrying through the great South Pass and the Wind River Mountains, among antelopes and buffaloes and painted Indians on the warpath. It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach.
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