"filibuster" Definition

Definitions for the word "filibuster" from multiple English dictionaries.

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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 obstruction of progress in a legislative assembly, esp. By prolonged speaking. 2 esp. Us person who engages in this. v. Act as a filibuster (against). filibusterer n. [dutch: related to *freebooter]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. slang
an American adventurer, who, if successful, helps to extend the boundaries of the United States, becomes a General, and receives high honours, but who remains a FILIBUSTER, and is despised as such, if he fails. The Texan, Nicaraguan, and kindred expeditions were of a FILIBUSTERING order.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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