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Filibuster   /fˈɪləbˌəstər/   Listen
Filibuster

verb
(past & past part. fillibustered; pres. part. filibustering)
1.
Obstruct deliberately by delaying.





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"Filibuster" Quotes from Famous Books



... come to the living feast and the most eager at the slaughter are the little grey lizard and the ant. I am afraid this latter, hateful filibuster that it is, will not leave me a single Cricket in my garden. It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with ...
— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre


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


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