Thesaurus: filibuster

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1. 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.
2. v. i. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
3. v. i. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
4. n. a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that they oppose
5. n. (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
6. v. obstruct deliberately by delaying
7. 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. 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.
8. A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest ofplunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infestingthe Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English todesignate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851,and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
9. v:28/n:72 n. a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes n. (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches v. obstruct deliberately by delaying