Filibuster - Law Dictionary Search Results
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filibuster : the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action esp. in a legislative assembly ;also : an instance of this practice vb -tered -ter·ing vi : to engage in a filibuster vt : to subject to a filibuster ...
Filibuster
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...
Filibusterism
The characteristics or practices of a filibuster...
Fillibuster
See Filibuster...
VerbarFlibustier
A buccaneer an American pirate See Filibuster...
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