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roorback

roor·back [ rr bàk ] (plural roor·backs)


noun 
Definition:
 
U.S. defamatory story: a false and defamatory story made public to gain a political advantage

[Mid-19th century. < Baron von Roorback, fictitious author of a nonexistent work supposedly quoted in an attack on U.S. presidential candidate James K. Polk in 1844]
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