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☆ roor·back (ro̵or′bak′)

noun

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

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

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