Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who seizes spoils or booty.
- n. Something that causes spoilage.
- n. A long, narrow hinged plate on the upper surface of an airplane wing that reduces lift and increases drag when raised.
- n. An air deflector mounted usually at the rear of an automobile to reduce lift at high speeds.
- n. A candidate for office whose chances of winning are slight but who may get enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning.
- n. A published piece of information that divulges a surprise, such as a plot twist in a movie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which spoils. A plunderer; a pillager; a robber.
- n. One who or that which impairs, mars, or decays.
Wiktionary
- n. A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise, or twist in a story.
- n. A device to reduce lift.
- n. A device to reduce lift and increase downforce
- n. An individual (or organisation etc.), unable to win themselves, who spoil the chances of another's victory.
- n. A comprehensive list of objects and their characteristics.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
- n. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
- n. A device attached to the wing of an airplane or other airfoil, which breaks the smooth flow of air during flight and decreases the lift of the airfoil; -- used to control the attitude of the airplane during banking or descent.
- n. A device attached to a car to decrease lift and increase traction, usually shaped as a flat surface and attached above the rear of the car, and working on the same principal as the aircraft spoiler{3}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
- n. a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag
- n. someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence
- n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- n. an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds
Examples
“One person's spoiler is another person's information.”
“(A big spoiler is right there on the tabloid's cover.)”
“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).”
Super Bowl 2010: What CBS show deserves the post-game slot? | EW.com
“Most of your review keeps a certain spoiler hidden, but once you are either wrong or deliberately misleading.”
“However, it seems that some of our readers really prefer to see or hear every last juicy spoiler from a movie themselves.”
Sunday Discussion: How Spoiled Do You Want to Be? « FirstShowing.net
“Of course, the choice to remain spoiler free or not is entirely up to you and you alone.”
Sunday Discussion: How Spoiled Do You Want to Be? « FirstShowing.net
“A spoiler is a summary or description of a narrative (or part of a narrative) that relates plot elements not revealed early in the narrative itself.”
“The climax of the story [mild spoiler] is an inverted sex scene in which a female alien implants an embryo into a male human via an ovipositor.”
“My main spoiler fear was not a NYT review, but some jerk emailing me and telling me that Ron was Kaiser Soze.”
“Finally, one person's spoiler is another's self-evident fact.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spoiler’.
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 443 more...
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Fandom words
Words that have meaning (or new meaning) because of fandom.
slash, het, drabble, canon, ship, spoiler, wank, lemon, bnf, weeaboo, woobie, fanon and 2 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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born2badored's Words
livid, fnordy, grok, bloopy, bokonon, disinformation, psychometrics, trip hop, acid jazz, bauble, dynamic, constant and 91 more...
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Geek Culture
geek, dork, nerd, gafiate, filk, concom, fanboy, fandom, geekosphere, grok, hacker, leet and 26 more...
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A Swell Mob
Kinds of thieves.
thief, sneak thief, burglar, cat burglar, picklock, puggard, robber, grave robber, piller, porch climber, prowler, larcenist and 77 more...
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unusual
zoonotic, escarpment, rampart, bulwark, booby-traps, booby, lipid, synapse, axon, ressentiment, solipsism, panacea and 67 more...
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I Am The Night!
All about the goddamn Batman.
batman, robin, joker, riddler, catwoman, batgirl, huntress, oracle, spoiler, bane, penguin, scarecrow and 17 more...
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Superheroes and villains whose names came out o...
The ones whose names have nothing to do with their powers, origins, costumes, or smell.
penance, phoenix, vision, mojo, genesis, zeitgeist, warbird, anarchist, sabra, redneck, crystal, warlock and 42 more...
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...


My turn? Um...
Movies: "slayer of suspense"
Politics: "upsetter of elections"
Food: "chunker of milk" Jun 26, 2007
Your turn:______. Jun 26, 2007