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Spoiler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Spoiler has 5 senses
- spoiler(n = noun.person) Array - a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning; Array is a kind of campaigner, candidate, nominee
- spoiler(n = noun.person) despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider - someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war); Array has particulars: buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover
- spoiler(n = noun.person) coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer - someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- spoiler(n = noun.artifact) Array - an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds; Array is a kind of aerofoil, airfoil, control surface, surface
- spoiler(n = noun.artifact) Array - a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag; Array is a kind of aerofoil, airfoil, control surface, surface
is a kind of stealer, thief
Derived form verb spoil4
CIDE DICTIONARY
Spoiler, n.
- One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. [1913 Webster]
- One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. [1913 Webster]
- A device attached to the wing of an airplane or other airfoil, which breaks the smooth flow of air during flight and decreases the lift of the airfoil; -- used to control the attitude of the airplane during banking or descent. [PJC]
- A device attached to a car to decrease lift and increase traction, usually shaped as a flat surface and attached above the rear of the car, and working on the same principal as the aircraft spoiler{3}. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Spoiler, n.
1 a person or thing that spoils.
2 a a device on an aircraft to retard its speed by interrupting the air flow. b a similar device on a vehicle to improve its road-holding at speed.
1 a person or thing that spoils.
2 a a device on an aircraft to retard its speed by interrupting the air flow. b a similar device on a vehicle to improve its road-holding at speed.
ROGET THESAURUS
Spoiler
Thief
N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.
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