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roorbach

Variant of roorback

☆ or roorbach

noun

a false or slanderous story devised for political effect, esp. against a candidate for office

Origin: after the imaginary author of a nonexistent book, Roorback's Tour, etc. containing spurious charges against candidate James Knox Polk

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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