Spoiler : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Spoiler	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Spoiler
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spoiler n a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) Synonym(s): plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence Synonym(s): pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoiler \Spoil"er\, n. 1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
spoiler n. [Usenet] 1. 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. 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, 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}, {spoiler space} or some combination of these techniques.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
spoiler 1. 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. 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. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-18)