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say it: SPOY-lur
spoiler is a noun meaning "a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
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someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence
an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds
a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spoiler come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.