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spoiler
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spoiler: see airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air.
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spoiler
1. a device fitted to an aircraft wing to increase drag and reduce lift. It is usually extended into the airflow to assist descent and banking
2. a similar device fitted to a car
1.spoiler - A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies, thus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie.
2.spoiler - Any remark which telegraphs the solution of a problem or puzzle, thus denying the reader the pleasure of working out the correct answer (see also interesting). Either sense readily forms compounds like "total spoiler", "quasi-spoiler" and even "pseudo-spoiler".

By convention, Usenet news articles which are spoilers in either sense should contain the word "spoiler" in the Subject: line, or guarantee via various tricks that the answer appears only after several screens-full of warning, or conceal the sensitive information via rot13, or some combination of these techniques.


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This time, as opposed to 2004, the dirty depiction of Democrats as coddlers of terrorists did not sell.
Finally, comeuppance by Rothschild, Matthew / The Progressive
At the opening, eggs were cooked on the stove in Wagenfeld egg coddlers, fueled by wood hacked off the model building.
Image structures: Mark Godfrey on photography and sculpture by Godfrey, Mark / Artforum International
it's obvious that this high-minded attempt to bypass the terrorist coddlers in Afghanistan is a self-defeating farce.
Correction, Please! by Hoar, William P. / The New American
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