roor|back

roor|back
roor|back or roor|bach «RUR bak», noun.
a false story or slander about a candidate for office, circulated for political effect.
[American English; from a damaging statement about the character of James K. Polk, allegedly contained in Roorback's Tour through the Western and Southern States, 1836, a nonexistent travel book]

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