Word
Filibuster
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
fil-i-bus-ter
Definition
- 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.
- v. i. - To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
- v. i. - To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other
artifices.
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