1 a part of an aircraft's wing that can be raised in order to interrupt the flow of air over it and so slow the aircraft's speed
2 a raised part on a fast car that prevents it from being lifted off the road when travelling very fast:
rear / front spoilers
3 (especially AmE) a candidate for a political office who is unlikely to win but who may get enough votes to prevent one of the main candidates from winning
4 a person or thing that spoils sth
5 a newspaper story, book, etc. that is produced very quickly in order to take attention away from a competitor's one that appears at the same time
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for spoiler is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is spoiler a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, spoiler is tagged as noun.
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