About The Word Filibuster
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Filibuster
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What's The Definition Of Filibuster?
[n] a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
[n] a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes [v] obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation Synonyms | Synonyms for Filibuster: filibusterer Related Terms | Find terms related to Filibuster: address | after-dinner speech | allocution | be dilatory | chalk talk | cloture | committee consideration | constitute | debate | declamation | decree | deliberation | diatribe | division | enact | enact laws | eulogy | exhortation | filibusterer | filibustering | filing | first reading | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | frustrater | funeral oration | gain time | get the floor | hang | hang back | hang fire | harangue | have the floor | hesitate | hinderer | hold off | hortatory address | impeder | inaugural | inaugural address | introduction | invective | jeremiad | kill | legislate | lobby through | logroll | logrolling | make time | marplot | negativist | obstructer | obstructionist | oration | ordain | outlast | outspeak | outtalk | pass | pep talk | peroration | philippic | pigeonhole | pitch | play for time | pocket | prepared speech | prepared text | procrastinate | public speech | put in force | put through | railroad through | reading | recital | recitation | roll call | roll logs | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | second reading | set speech | speech | speechification | speeching | stall | stall for time | stall off | steamroller methods | stooge around | table | tabling | take the floor | talk | talk against time | talk down | talkathon | temporize | third reading | thwarter | tirade | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address | veto | vote | yield the floor See Also | block | blockade | delay | delayer | embarrass | hinder | holdup | legislator | obstruct | stymie | stymy Filibuster In Webster's Dictionary \Fil"i*bus`ter\, n. [Sp. flibuster, flibustero,
corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See {Freebooter}.]
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of
plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers
infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into
common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his
expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his
expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
\Fil"i*bus*ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fillibustered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filibustering}.] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. --Bartlett. 2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] --Bartlett. |
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