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Filibuster v. i. (past & past part. fillibustered; pres. part. filibustering)

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. (political cant or slang, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Filibuster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Filibuster" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be a microscopist in the village who had heard the old pirate story, and he took it into his head to examine the crust on this door. There was no mistake about it; it was a genuine historical document, of the Ziska drum-head pattern,—a real cutis humana, stripped from some old Scandinavian filibuster, and the legend ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words linked to "Filibuster" : embarrass, stymy, legislator, hinder, lawmaking, delay, holdup, law, legislating, legislation, obstruct, blockade, stymie