Usually means: Attack on person, not argument.
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  1. argumentum ad hominem: Collins English Dictionary
  2. argumentum ad hominem: Wiktionary
  3. Argumentum ad hominem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (argumentum ad hominem)

noun:  (rhetoric) A type of fallacious argument in which the attempt is made to refute a theory or belief by discrediting the person(s) who advocate that theory or belief; an ad hominem argument.

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