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roorback

 
Dictionary: roor·back   (rʊr'băk') pronunciation
 
n.

A false or slanderous story used for political advantage.

[After Baron von Roorback, imaginary author of Roorback's Tour Through the Western and Southern States, from which a passage was purportedly quoted in an attempt to disparage presidential candidate James K. Polk in 1844.]


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a defamatory falsehood published for political effect
 
 
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