spoilern.

Brit.

/ˈspɔɪlə/, U.S.

/ˈspɔɪlər/

Etymology: < spoil v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

a. One who pillages, plunders, or robs; a ravager, spoliator, despoiler.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]

riflera1350

ravenerc1384

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preyerc1390

raptora1398

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despoiler1467

spulyierc1475

pillardc1485

ruggerc1485

pollera1513

booty-fellow1530

spoiler1535

caterpillar1541

kitea1556

ransacker?1576

predator1581

lurdan1589

worm1591

scraper1598

pillager?1611

ravager1611

bird of preya1616

depredator1626

plunderer1639

expilator1658

shark1713

depredationist1828

spoliator1831

rapiner1843

ravisher1851

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xvii. 20 Therfore dyd y^e Lorde cast awaye all y^e sede of Israel,..and delyuered them in to the handes of the spoylers.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 11 Many disorders doe happen by the disorder of couetous spoilers.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxi. 2 The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.

1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 49 A Cruel Spoiler came, Cropt this fair Rose, and rifled all its Sweetness.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 128 One tenth for the use of the society.., and the other nine for the benefit of the spoilers.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 240 Can any philosophic spoiler undertake to demonstrate..the comparative evil, of having a..portion of landed property.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. ii. 81 Driving them into the interior,..leaving their fields and homes to the spoiler.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile vii. 181 One can easily imagine how these spoilers sacked and ravaged all before them.

figurative.1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 613/1 I hate people who meet Time half-way. I am for no compromise with that inevitable spoiler.1824 W. M. Praed Athens 199 If the flush of youth..Could bid the spoiler turn his scythe away, Or snatch one flower from darkness and decay.

b. Said of animals, insects, etc.

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that destroys things

spoiler1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 225 One of them stands centinel upon a tree, while the rest are plundering..in the mean time, the rest of the spoilers pursue their work with great silence and assiduity.

1779 W. Cowper Pineapple & Bee 5 On eager wing the spoiler came, And search'd for crannies in the frame.

a. One who or that which spoils, destroys, injures, mars, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > one who or that which damages

spulyierc1475

marrerc1500

maimer1530

hinderer1532

nipper1535

mangler1561

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truncator1579

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mauler1618

wrecker1882

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 35 Chyche..is a great spoyler of land.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Brodder, a Marrer, or a Spoiler of worke.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 215 Wheadling Gablers,..Spoilers of Paper.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 297 Camock..is a greater Spoiler of the Corn.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 89 The sun was dreaded as an enemy to the skin without doors, and the fire as a spoiler of the complexion within.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 The sun is a spoiler of intrinsic colour.

b. Boxing. An inferior fighter who sets out to disrupt his opponent's style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of

bruiser1744

ruffian1791

in-fighter1812

punisher1812

nobber1821

receiver general1821

slogger1829

slogster1881

ham1888

slaughterer1896

pushover1908

bum1917

mauler1920

palooka1920

round heel1926

set-up1926

powder puff1931

spoiler1948

kick-boxer1978

stiff1989

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 15/2 Walcot is only a timid defensive heavyweight to whom the words ‘offense’ and ‘attack’ are abhorrent. In the language of the ring he is known as a ‘spoiler’, the type of fighter who can make an opponent look bad but who can never look good himself.

1959 Times 14 Oct. 16/5 Carroll, a ‘spoiler’ when at close quarters, has a good left jab.

c. U.S. One who mars the chance of victory for an opponent, while not being a potential winner. Also, applied to a thing. Esp. in Sport and Politics.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > person > jealous

spoiler1950

1950 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 20/4 In meeting San Francisco here..the Colts will get a crack at their biggest ‘spoiler’ of the past two seasons.

1965 N.Y. Times 1 Nov. 40 It seems clear that William Buckley will poll enough votes to be a ‘spoiler’, though it is not yet certain for whom.

1967 Connable & Silberfarb Tigers of Tammany iv. 117 Van Buren was the ‘spoiler’ in a three-way race.

1968 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. 19 Mr. Javits..described the six-year-old Conservative party as ‘a faction’ that had been set up as ‘a spoiler’ party.

1971 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. iv. 3/4 What he [sc. George Wallace] is doing these days is laying the premise for another ‘spoiler’ campaign in 1972.

1976 J. V. O'Brien William O'Brien viii. 194 It was felt that the Protestant vote had gone not to O'Brien but to the spoiler candidate and ex-Lord Mayor.

1979 N.Y. Post 20 Aug. 44 It looks like we're out of it now, so we'll just have to be spoilers from here on.

1979 N.Y. Post 20 Aug. 46 I suppose you can't have a ‘spoiler’ in soccer.

1980 Washington Post 11 Sept. 1/1 Not that Anderson is yet seen as a serious challenger for the presidency... But he is now perceived as a genuine factor in the presidential election, a certified political spoiler.

a. Aeronautics. A flap or the like that can be made to project from the upper surface of an aircraft wing to break up a smooth air-flow and so increase drag.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > movable control surface > device to reduce lift

spoiler1928

1928 de Port & Borden Rep. U.S. Air Corps Materiel Div. Airplane Branch No. 2878. 2 The ‘spoiler’ or ‘lift destroyer’ described in this report causes a decrease in lift by a ‘burbling’ action.

1932 Rep. U.S. Nat. Advisory Comm. for Aeronautics No. 439. 3/1 When ailerons and spoilers are used together the full effect of both is not obtained if the spoilers are located directly in front of the ailerons.

1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Adv. Soaring iii. 84 When the spoilers are raised a certain amount of the lift of the wing is destroyed and the machine must glide at a steeper angle in order to keep the speed constant.

1978 R. Jansson News Caper xiii. 115 Thackaray trimmed once more, and briefly pulled on the spoilers to reduce our air speed.

b. A structure on a motor vehicle intended to reduce lift and so increase the pressure on the wheels at high speed; also, one located so as to reduce the drag caused by components on the underside of a car.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > structures to reduce drag or lift

fairing1936

spoiler1963

aerofoil1966

air dam1970

skirt1974

1963 Times 8 Mar. 3/7 A special feature..is the tail, which is sharply cut-back in Ferrari style, the roof sweeping down to end in a ‘spoiler’ or raised lip. This treatment eliminates turbulence and wind drag by killing low-pressure over the tail, and keeping weights on the rear wheels at high speed.

1965 Observer 10 Oct. 5/1 It has retractable spoilers which can be pushed up to increase high-speed stability.

1974 L. Deighton Spy Story i. 10 His car..was..all dressed up in black vinyl, Lamborghini-style rear-window slats, and even a spoiler.

1979 Time 2 Apr. 6 (advt.) The front spoiler is there to give you increased tyre adhesion at high speeds.

Draft additions 1997

Journalism. A news story or other newspaper item published to spoil the impact of and divert attention from a related item published elsewhere. Also transferred in other news media: an event which is intended to generate news coverage with a similarly distracting effect.

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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of > with distracting effect

spoiler1985

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > cause of > event

spoiler1985

society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > story > types of

sob story1913

wire story1943

cover story1945

MEGO1977

spoiler1985

1985 Guardian 20 May 7/8 What we have there is a classic Fleet Street spoiling operation aimed at sinking the Bogdanovitch story... The spoiler is designed to neutralise the enemy's razzmatazz by running the same story, preferably bigger, better and sooner.

1988 Sunday Times 17 Apr. c6/4 Not to be outdone, the Mail has run a daily ‘spoiler’, unprecedented in its length, matching each four-page pull-out in Today with its own centre-page spreads: ‘Michael Jackson, Uncensored’.

1989 Daily Tel. 30 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) p. v/1 The speech made the front pages of the Daily Mail, The Times and The Daily Telegraph... The Independent..treated it as a spoiler for Paddy Ashdown's ‘green’ speech to his party conference a couple of days later.

Draft additions 1993

Sound Recording. An electronic device incorporated into a piece of recording equipment in order to prevent unauthorized recording, esp. of a compact disc by a digital audio tape deck; also (in full spoiler signal), an electronic signal, inaudible during normal listening, which ruins the recording of any record or soundtrack into which it is incorporated.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > spoiler signal

spoiler1979

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > device preventing unauthorized recording

spoiler1979

1979 New Scientist 17 May 522/2 The BPI's chimera is a spoiler signal, buried in the original recording... Spoilers can be made to perform under laboratory conditions, but in practice they are a dead duck. They can, for instance, easily be defeated by a simple anti-spoiler circuit.

1981 New Scientist 5 Nov. 359/2 As spoilers and levies are contradictory (one prevents taping while the other taxes it), the government is unlikely to change its mind on a levy while such confusion exists.

1986 Times 3 Sept. 23/3 The..music industry..wants legislation requiring all dat machines to carry an anti-copying device called a spoiler so that dat cannot pirate copyright material.

1988 Which? July 345/3 CBS recently tried to introduce a ‘spoiler’ system called Copycode. This, it was claimed, would prevent any CD/DAT recording.

Draft additions June 2007

colloquial (originally U.S.). A description of a significant plot point or other aspect of a movie, book, etc., which if previously known may spoil a person's first experience of the work. Esp. in written contexts, warning the reader of an impending revelation of this type.

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1971 D. C. Kenney in National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 On the following pages, the National Lampoon presents, as a public service, a selection of ‘spoilers’ guaranteed to reduce the risk of unsettling and possibly dangerous suspense... Psycho: The movie's multiple murders are committed by Anthony Perkins disguised as his long-dead mother [etc.].

1981 SF-Lovers Digest V3 #120 in fa.sf-lovers (Usenet newsgroup) 13 May Spoiler..Spoiler..Spoiler... The island of the High-tech civilization is Krakatoa.

1993 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. (ed. 2) 392 Spoiler, a remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies.

2001 Premiere Feb. 45/1 It [sc. this article] contains several plot ‘spoilers’ and should not be read until after you have seen the movie.

Draft additions June 2018

spoiler alert n. (in a review or esp. online discussion of a film, television series, etc.) an intervention used to warn a reader that an important detail of the story is about to be divulged or alluded to; a forewarning of a plot spoiler (see sense Additions); frequently humorous or ironic, esp. in wider use (see quot. 2017).

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1982 ST-2 Question in net.movies (Usenet newsgroup) 8 June [Spoiler alert] regarding Spock's parting gesture to McCoy, it wouldn't surprize me if that's how they bring him back.

1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. a19 On movie buffs' discussion lists..there is wide use of the term ‘spoiler alert’, which is a warning inserted before any comment that would give away a film's ending.

1998 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 24 June c1 117 TV episodes have aired so far... So here's a spoiler alert. If you don't want to know.., read no further.

2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 23 Dec. (Mag.) 73/4 Spoiler alert: Little Nell totally dies at the end.

2017 Southern Jewish Life June 46/2 The Torah is also referred to as The Five Books of Moses...There are five books and (spoiler alert:) a lot of it is about Moses.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spoiler
释义	spoilern. Brit. /ˈspɔɪlə/, U.S. /ˈspɔɪlər/ Etymology: < spoil v.¹ + -er suffix¹. 1. a. One who pillages, plunders, or robs; a ravager, spoliator, despoiler. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] riflera1350 ravenerc1384 pillerc1385 preyerc1390 raptora1398 peelera1425 despoiler1467 spulyierc1475 pillardc1485 ruggerc1485 pollera1513 booty-fellow1530 spoiler1535 caterpillar1541 kitea1556 ransacker?1576 predator1581 lurdan1589 worm1591 scraper1598 pillager?1611 ravager1611 bird of preya1616 depredator1626 plunderer1639 expilator1658 shark1713 depredationist1828 spoliator1831 rapiner1843 ravisher1851 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xvii. 20 Therfore dyd y^e Lorde cast awaye all y^e sede of Israel,..and delyuered them in to the handes of the spoylers. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 11 Many disorders doe happen by the disorder of couetous spoilers. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxi. 2 The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. View more context for this quotation 1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 49 A Cruel Spoiler came, Cropt this fair Rose, and rifled all its Sweetness. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 128 One tenth for the use of the society.., and the other nine for the benefit of the spoilers. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 240 Can any philosophic spoiler undertake to demonstrate..the comparative evil, of having a..portion of landed property. View more context for this quotation 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. ii. 81 Driving them into the interior,..leaving their fields and homes to the spoiler. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile vii. 181 One can easily imagine how these spoilers sacked and ravaged all before them. figurative.1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 613/1 I hate people who meet Time half-way. I am for no compromise with that inevitable spoiler.1824 W. M. Praed Athens 199 If the flush of youth..Could bid the spoiler turn his scythe away, Or snatch one flower from darkness and decay. b. Said of animals, insects, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that destroys things spoiler1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 225 One of them stands centinel upon a tree, while the rest are plundering..in the mean time, the rest of the spoilers pursue their work with great silence and assiduity. 1779 W. Cowper Pineapple & Bee 5 On eager wing the spoiler came, And search'd for crannies in the frame. 2. a. One who or that which spoils, destroys, injures, mars, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > one who or that which damages spulyierc1475 marrerc1500 maimer1530 hinderer1532 nipper1535 mangler1561 spoiler1577 truncator1579 batterer1611 spoil?1611 mauler1618 wrecker1882 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 35 Chyche..is a great spoyler of land. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Brodder, a Marrer, or a Spoiler of worke. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 215 Wheadling Gablers,..Spoilers of Paper. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 297 Camock..is a greater Spoiler of the Corn. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 89 The sun was dreaded as an enemy to the skin without doors, and the fire as a spoiler of the complexion within. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 The sun is a spoiler of intrinsic colour. b. Boxing. An inferior fighter who sets out to disrupt his opponent's style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of bruiser1744 ruffian1791 in-fighter1812 punisher1812 nobber1821 receiver general1821 slogger1829 slogster1881 ham1888 slaughterer1896 pushover1908 bum1917 mauler1920 palooka1920 round heel1926 set-up1926 powder puff1931 spoiler1948 kick-boxer1978 stiff1989 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 29 June 15/2 Walcot is only a timid defensive heavyweight to whom the words ‘offense’ and ‘attack’ are abhorrent. In the language of the ring he is known as a ‘spoiler’, the type of fighter who can make an opponent look bad but who can never look good himself. 1959 Times 14 Oct. 16/5 Carroll, a ‘spoiler’ when at close quarters, has a good left jab. c. U.S. One who mars the chance of victory for an opponent, while not being a potential winner. Also, applied to a thing. Esp. in Sport and Politics. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > person > jealous spoiler1950 1950 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 20/4 In meeting San Francisco here..the Colts will get a crack at their biggest ‘spoiler’ of the past two seasons. 1965 N.Y. Times 1 Nov. 40 It seems clear that William Buckley will poll enough votes to be a ‘spoiler’, though it is not yet certain for whom. 1967 Connable & Silberfarb Tigers of Tammany iv. 117 Van Buren was the ‘spoiler’ in a three-way race. 1968 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. 19 Mr. Javits..described the six-year-old Conservative party as ‘a faction’ that had been set up as ‘a spoiler’ party. 1971 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. iv. 3/4 What he [sc. George Wallace] is doing these days is laying the premise for another ‘spoiler’ campaign in 1972. 1976 J. V. O'Brien William O'Brien viii. 194 It was felt that the Protestant vote had gone not to O'Brien but to the spoiler candidate and ex-Lord Mayor. 1979 N.Y. Post 20 Aug. 44 It looks like we're out of it now, so we'll just have to be spoilers from here on. 1979 N.Y. Post 20 Aug. 46 I suppose you can't have a ‘spoiler’ in soccer. 1980 Washington Post 11 Sept. 1/1 Not that Anderson is yet seen as a serious challenger for the presidency... But he is now perceived as a genuine factor in the presidential election, a certified political spoiler. 3. a. Aeronautics. A flap or the like that can be made to project from the upper surface of an aircraft wing to break up a smooth air-flow and so increase drag. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > movable control surface > device to reduce lift spoiler1928 1928 de Port & Borden Rep. U.S. Air Corps Materiel Div. Airplane Branch No. 2878. 2 The ‘spoiler’ or ‘lift destroyer’ described in this report causes a decrease in lift by a ‘burbling’ action. 1932 Rep. U.S. Nat. Advisory Comm. for Aeronautics No. 439. 3/1 When ailerons and spoilers are used together the full effect of both is not obtained if the spoilers are located directly in front of the ailerons. 1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Adv. Soaring iii. 84 When the spoilers are raised a certain amount of the lift of the wing is destroyed and the machine must glide at a steeper angle in order to keep the speed constant. 1978 R. Jansson News Caper xiii. 115 Thackaray trimmed once more, and briefly pulled on the spoilers to reduce our air speed. b. A structure on a motor vehicle intended to reduce lift and so increase the pressure on the wheels at high speed; also, one located so as to reduce the drag caused by components on the underside of a car. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > structures to reduce drag or lift fairing1936 spoiler1963 aerofoil1966 air dam1970 skirt1974 1963 Times 8 Mar. 3/7 A special feature..is the tail, which is sharply cut-back in Ferrari style, the roof sweeping down to end in a ‘spoiler’ or raised lip. This treatment eliminates turbulence and wind drag by killing low-pressure over the tail, and keeping weights on the rear wheels at high speed. 1965 Observer 10 Oct. 5/1 It has retractable spoilers which can be pushed up to increase high-speed stability. 1974 L. Deighton Spy Story i. 10 His car..was..all dressed up in black vinyl, Lamborghini-style rear-window slats, and even a spoiler. 1979 Time 2 Apr. 6 (advt.) The front spoiler is there to give you increased tyre adhesion at high speeds. Draft additions 1997 Journalism. A news story or other newspaper item published to spoil the impact of and divert attention from a related item published elsewhere. Also transferred in other news media: an event which is intended to generate news coverage with a similarly distracting effect. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of > with distracting effect spoiler1985 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > cause of > event spoiler1985 society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > story > types of sob story1913 wire story1943 cover story1945 MEGO1977 spoiler1985 1985 Guardian 20 May 7/8 What we have there is a classic Fleet Street spoiling operation aimed at sinking the Bogdanovitch story... The spoiler is designed to neutralise the enemy's razzmatazz by running the same story, preferably bigger, better and sooner. 1988 Sunday Times 17 Apr. c6/4 Not to be outdone, the Mail has run a daily ‘spoiler’, unprecedented in its length, matching each four-page pull-out in Today with its own centre-page spreads: ‘Michael Jackson, Uncensored’. 1989 Daily Tel. 30 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) p. v/1 The speech made the front pages of the Daily Mail, The Times and The Daily Telegraph... The Independent..treated it as a spoiler for Paddy Ashdown's ‘green’ speech to his party conference a couple of days later. Draft additions 1993 Sound Recording. An electronic device incorporated into a piece of recording equipment in order to prevent unauthorized recording, esp. of a compact disc by a digital audio tape deck; also (in full spoiler signal), an electronic signal, inaudible during normal listening, which ruins the recording of any record or soundtrack into which it is incorporated. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > spoiler signal spoiler1979 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > device preventing unauthorized recording spoiler1979 1979 New Scientist 17 May 522/2 The BPI's chimera is a spoiler signal, buried in the original recording... Spoilers can be made to perform under laboratory conditions, but in practice they are a dead duck. They can, for instance, easily be defeated by a simple anti-spoiler circuit. 1981 New Scientist 5 Nov. 359/2 As spoilers and levies are contradictory (one prevents taping while the other taxes it), the government is unlikely to change its mind on a levy while such confusion exists. 1986 Times 3 Sept. 23/3 The..music industry..wants legislation requiring all dat machines to carry an anti-copying device called a spoiler so that dat cannot pirate copyright material. 1988 Which? July 345/3 CBS recently tried to introduce a ‘spoiler’ system called Copycode. This, it was claimed, would prevent any CD/DAT recording. Draft additions June 2007 colloquial (originally U.S.). A description of a significant plot point or other aspect of a movie, book, etc., which if previously known may spoil a person's first experience of the work. Esp. in written contexts, warning the reader of an impending revelation of this type. ΚΠ 1971 D. C. Kenney in National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 On the following pages, the National Lampoon presents, as a public service, a selection of ‘spoilers’ guaranteed to reduce the risk of unsettling and possibly dangerous suspense... Psycho: The movie's multiple murders are committed by Anthony Perkins disguised as his long-dead mother [etc.]. 1981 SF-Lovers Digest V3 #120 in fa.sf-lovers (Usenet newsgroup) 13 May Spoiler..Spoiler..Spoiler... The island of the High-tech civilization is Krakatoa. 1993 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. (ed. 2) 392 Spoiler, a remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies. 2001 Premiere Feb. 45/1 It [sc. this article] contains several plot ‘spoilers’ and should not be read until after you have seen the movie. Draft additions June 2018 spoiler alert n. (in a review or esp. online discussion of a film, television series, etc.) an intervention used to warn a reader that an important detail of the story is about to be divulged or alluded to; a forewarning of a plot spoiler (see sense Additions); frequently humorous or ironic, esp. in wider use (see quot. 2017). ΚΠ 1982 ST-2 Question in net.movies (Usenet newsgroup) 8 June [Spoiler alert] regarding Spock's parting gesture to McCoy, it wouldn't surprize me if that's how they bring him back. 1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. a19 On movie buffs' discussion lists..there is wide use of the term ‘spoiler alert’, which is a warning inserted before any comment that would give away a film's ending. 1998 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 24 June c1 117 TV episodes have aired so far... So here's a spoiler alert. If you don't want to know.., read no further. 2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 23 Dec. (Mag.) 73/4 Spoiler alert: Little Nell totally dies at the end. 2017 Southern Jewish Life June 46/2 The Torah is also referred to as The Five Books of Moses...There are five books and (spoiler alert:) a lot of it is about Moses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535
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