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Somebody's bound to lose in The Spoiler Game.
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November 4, 2003
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Byline: Joanne Weintraub
The third print edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 1992, gives four common definitions for "spoiler."
The fourth and latest edition, which came out in 2000, adds this notable fifth definition: "a post to a newsgroup that divulges information intended to be a surprise, such as a plot twist in a movie."
There's little doubt that people have been spoiling surprises for each other since our species began to speak, or even to point. But it took the Web to raise the spoiler to an art form _ and to spawn the considerate ...
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