Usually means: Extended speech obstructing legislative progress.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Philibuster)

noun:  Rare spelling of filibuster. [(historical) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.]
verb:  Rare spelling of filibuster. [To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.]

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