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
- One person's spoiler is another person's information.
- (A big spoiler is right there on the tabloid's cover.)
- 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.
- Though the title spoiler issue is rendered moot whenever the reader waves their mouse over the link.
- They even did an episode about the superbowl (they all missed the game, and wanted to remain spoiler free until they could watch it together).
- The spoiler is that, no, I didn't fall madly in love with my online fitness coach, which would have been a hilarious and ironic end to the story.
- But when asked about the term 'spoiler', Paul had this to say: "I have no idea what exactly spoiler means," Paul said recently while in New Hampshire.
- The term "spoiler" takes on new meaning when images of food that are shared with abandon ruin, for everybody else, the presentation and surprise that the chef intended.