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Filibuster   Listen
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Filibuster  n.  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.






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"Filibuster" Quotes from Famous Books



... commission, he ought to have allowed the other party to appoint its own commissioners without any suggestion from him. But as the case had dragged on interminably, and he believed, and the world believed, and the Canadians themselves knew, that they intended to filibuster and postpone as long as possible, he took the common-sense way to a settlement. If he had resolved, as he had, to draw the boundary line "on his own hook," in case there was further pettifogging he committed no impropriety in warning the British statesmen of his ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer



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



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