dancing in which the dancer, usually a woman, shakes her hips in an up-and-down manner, obstructing progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
The new bill containing big-agri earmarks was defeated by a twerking filibuster lasting over 45 minutes.
by krittyboi January 3, 2014
Get the twerking filibuster mug.A Taiwanese Filibuster when a second or third party snatches the documents away from the principal signing them, creating a highly symbolic situation that is quite pointless because they can just print another set of documents to be signed in like 2 minutes. The symbolism is highly symbolic, thus creating the Taiwanese Filibuster. This term is based on that time in May, 2024 when Guo Guowen, a Member of the Taiwanese Parliament, swiftly snatched a legal Bill's documents and made a dramatic dash to prevent it from being passed, as shown on an online video.
Mr. PHBL: We are pleased to present you this law to be promulgated, Sir.
Sir: I am pleased to sign this.
Guo Guowen: I AM GOING TO SNATCH THESE DOCUMENTS IN PROTEST.
Mr. PHBL: *facepalm* oh golly what do we have here, a Taiwanese Filibuster. Toby, can you please re-print this 18 page document so Mr. Sir and us can sign it before another lunatic comes in here.
Sir: Huh.
Sir: I am pleased to sign this.
Guo Guowen: I AM GOING TO SNATCH THESE DOCUMENTS IN PROTEST.
Mr. PHBL: *facepalm* oh golly what do we have here, a Taiwanese Filibuster. Toby, can you please re-print this 18 page document so Mr. Sir and us can sign it before another lunatic comes in here.
Sir: Huh.
by phbl December 12, 2024
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The act of finding an Italian prostitute and having them wrap your own umbilical chord from birth around your neck while they're inserting an artificial penis up your rectum.
by Marshall8912 May 26, 2025
Get the Ravioli Filibuster mug.Or "phive-phrase philibuster". Refers to a knock-knock joke, since its utilization needlessly adds lots of extra words to said utterance, especially in "everyday" or "ordinary" instances where a simple question or statement would have sufficed.
Employing a five-frase filibuster may indeed consume extra time and lung-power, but it also can often greatly relieve tension and cause a possibly-less-than-welcome statement/question to be received considerably more calmly and/or amicably than it might have been if you'd simply blurted it out "directly".
by QuacksO July 18, 2021
Get the five-frase filibuster mug.An extended interval of loud/tempestuous monologue/dialogue that's intended to bully down and/or suppress opposition/suspicion, without actually providing any true validity or solid tangible proof that the proffered opinions/assertions are actually reasonable, accurate, etc.
Nobody listened to Bill Clinton's filibluster about "For the record, I did **NOT** **HAVE** **SEXUAL** **RELATIONS** with that woman." And they aren't listening to him now, either, especially since it was later revealed that he had indeed "gotten some".
by QuacksO June 14, 2016
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Get the filibustanut mug.Hym "Don't let a media fillbuster get your kids killed. I'm not going to stop until I get the credit and the money and if they don't stop I'm not going to. Make the pundits end the fillbuster and don't let that Kilmar Abredo Garcia step one foot in America before they address the surveillance and the theft of my property. Make them stop fillbustering. Any means necessary. They do not care about my rights so don't let them invoke thier rights. Don't let them throw your kids life away in the name of 'standing up to bullies.' That isn't what they are doing here. They have already gotten your kids killed in Uvalde. They have already gotten your kids killed in Santa fe. They have gotten the parents in Waukesha Wisconsin killed. Don't let them do it again. Make them stop. Make them talk. Make them admit they were wrong because they are still covering up the fact that they buried a story that has gotten dozen of people killed."
by Hym Iam April 23, 2025
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