1. (film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot
   "the McGuffin was a key element of Alfred Hitchcock's films"
   - MacGuffin

Type of: plot element

Encyclopedia: McGuffin

• Sioux
• Sioux City
• Sioux Falls
• sip
• Sipah-e-Sahaba
• siphon
• siphon off
• Siphonaptera
• Siphonophora
• siphonophore
• SIPP
• sipper
• sippet
• Sipuncula
• sipunculid
• Siqueiros
• sir
• Sir Alan Hodgkin
• Sir Alec Guinness
• Sir Alexander Fleming
• Sir Alexander Korda
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie
• Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
• Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
• Sir Alfred Hitchcock