0 to make a long speech in order to delay or prevent a new law being made: --
Conceivably, supporters of the law could filibuster to prevent it from being revised.
1 a long speech that someone makes in order to delay or prevent a new law being made: --
2 (in a legislature) a way of preventing a law from being passed by using the rules or making long speeches to delay voting on it --
I was grateful that he began by saying that he was not filibustering.
Was it some filibuster that was preventing any business getting through?
It was a dreadful filibuster which added nothing to the debate.
We were not planning to filibuster it into the small hours of the morning.
Dilatory motions have succeeded one another, and the result was a filibuster.
It is not because we on this side are filibustering, but because we have a genuine fear that a mistake is being made here.
Others, less charitably, would describe it as a filibuster.
Apart from piracy there is a danger of the landing on the mainland of armed forces known as filibusters.
