filibuster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: filibuster	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for filibuster
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
filibuster n a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes Synonym(s): filibuster, filibusterer (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches v obstruct deliberately by delaying
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filibuster \Fil"i*bus`ter\, n. [Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See {Freebooter}.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filibuster \Fil"ibuster\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fillibustered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filibustering}.] 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.