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Filibuster   Listen
verb
Filibuster  v. i.  (past & past part. fillibustered; pres. part. filibustering)  
1.
To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
2.
To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. (political cant or slang, U.S.)





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"Filibuster" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, "was a filibuster, and went out on the 'Virginius' to help free Cuba, and was shot, against a stone wall. We never knew where ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... spent four days in close conference with General Wilkinson; and at New Orleans he consorted with Daniel Clark, a rich merchant and the most uncompromising opponent of Governor Claiborne, and with members of the Mexican Association and every would-be adventurer and filibuster. In November, Burr was again in Washington. What was the purpose of this journey and ...
— Jefferson and his Colleagues - A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Allen Johnson
... whatever to the capital of Isabela. In this town he was at once placed in solitary confinement in one of the rooms of the convento and allowed no intercourse with any one. The sin for which they recriminated Piera was his having charged Dimas [283] with being a filibuster, and their revengefulness reached an incredible limit. The heartrending moans of this martyr to his duty still resound in that convento converted into the scene of an orgy of blood. The unfortunate man was heard to shout: 'For God's sake, for God's sake, have pity,' and trustworthy ...
— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester
... you come YOURSELF and see your aunt. I can't go into port without a license, and them port charges cost a heap o' red tape, for they've got a Filibuster scare on down there just now, but you can go ashore in the boat and I'll get permission from the Secretary to stand off and wait for you there for twenty-four hours." Mrs. Bunker flushed and paled at the thought. She could see him! The letter would ...
— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte


Words linked to "Filibuster" :   stymie, obstruct, delayer, delay, jurisprudence, filibusterer, legislating, lawmaking, block, hinder, holdup, stymy, legislator


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