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It pushes your car down and your blood pressure up, depending on the context.
means A spoiler is either an aerodynamic part fitted to a vehicle to disrupt unwanted airflow and improve stability, or a piece of information that reveals a plot twist before someone wants to know it.
from From the verb 'spoil,' which came through Old French 'espoillier' from Latin 'spoliare,' meaning to strip or plunder — originally to strip an enemy of armor and goods. 'Spoil' first meant ruin or pillage; the noun 'spoiler' followed as 'one who spoils.' The car part is a 20th-century borrowing — the wing 'spoils' the smooth airflow on purpose — while the plot-twist sense is even more recent, spoiling the surprise rather than a battlefield.
- physics
- Aerodynamic spoilers spoil lift, pressing tires into the road
- useless badge
- Most street car spoilers do nothing at legal speeds
- narrative dread
- One sentence can ruin twelve hours of suspense
- word origin
- Comes from spoiling smooth airflow over the body
- warning culture
- Streaming era turned spoilers into social warfare
sixth sense ending — bruce willis's character revealed dead the entire movie, 1999 film
the usual suspects — verbal kint is keyser söze, the criminal mastermind, 1995 film