SkyfireDict

spoiler   (TTS Sound)

The noun spoiler has 5 senses

• spoiler -- (a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning)


• plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter -- (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))


• pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler -- (someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence)


• spoiler -- (an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds)


• spoiler -- (a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag)