spoiler

IPA: spˈɔɪɫɝ

noun

  • One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
  • One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
  • A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.
  • (aeronautics) A device to reduce lift and increase drag.
  • (automotive) A device to reduce lift and increase downforce.
  • (US, chiefly politics, sports) An individual (or organisation etc.), unable to win themselves, who spoils the chances of another's victory.

verb

  • (transitive, fandom slang) To mark (a document or message) with a spoiler warning, to prevent readers from accidentally learning details they would prefer not to know.
  • (transitive, fandom slang) To tell (a person) details of how a story ends etc.
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Examples of "spoiler" in Sentences

  • The spoiler project page taught me the futility of that.
  • The detail and verbiage was excessive and wrought with spoilers.
  • The spoiler tags themselves are basically inoffensive and harmless.
  • Like the rest of the Batman family, Spoiler has no superhuman powers.
  • It is a spoiler attitude that is used to justify fatalism and nihilism.
  • If we attempted to censor, the spoilers would be gone, kaput, vanished.
  • I understand that it's undecided whether to put the spoiler in the lead.
  • It is so unbearably reminiscent of fandom to warn everyone about spoilers.
  • Are you removing all spoiler warnings in the encyclopedia indiscriminately
  • The spoiler tag is already there so readers have been forewarned of spoilers.

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