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A candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
Answer for the clue "A candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning ", 7 letters:
spoiler
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2 One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. 3 A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story. 4 (context aeronautics English) A device ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spoiler is an automotive aerodynamic device whose intended design function is to 'spoil' unfavorable air movement across a body of a vehicle in motion, usually described as turbulence or drag. Spoilers on the front of a vehicle are often called air dams ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "one who robs or plunders," agent noun from spoil (v.). Meaning "one who mars another's chance at victory" is attested from 1950 in U.S. politics, perhaps from boxing. Aeronautics sense is from 1928, because the flap thwarts the "lift" on the plane; ...
Usage examples of spoiler.
Spoilers make the airplane lose altitude and slow down, but they can also cause some choppy vibrations.
Volvo fastback, with the cross-body spoiler and the legendary cage of steel.
Some of the Jews fled and some remained, but they who fled and they who remained, alike, and unresistingly, left their property to the hands of the spoilers.
On all the French marches are droves of outcasts, reivers, spoilers, and draw-latches, of whom I judge that these are some, though I marvel that they should dare to come so nigh to the castle of the seneschal.
It was in this Sacramento Valley, just referred to, that a deal of the most lucrative of the early gold mining was done, and you may still see, in places, its grassy slopes and levels torn and guttered and disfigured by the avaricious spoilers of fifteen and twenty years ago.
Castle must have borne in the old time when the French spoilers saw the monster bonfire which they had made there fading and spoiling toward extinction.
Spoilers and airbrakes and landing gear doors and landing gears began to spring out of nowhere out of the bomber's huge frame, and the distance between the two planes was chopped to nothing in the blink of an eye.
Once it reached the maxcel lanes of the major groundway, the boy hung out the spoilers and commanded maximum throttle.
But instead he had to pound out along the freeway to the Marina: an appointment with a client who had freaked out and was on the verge of being dumped from a picture, then a meeting with a crowd of spoilers who claimed that a Sawyer & Sloat project just up from Marina del Rey was polluting the beach - things that could not be postponed.
But I was all thumbs in the shop, slow to learn the layout of the frames in which the fonts of type were distributed, clumsy at locking up a forme, messy with ink, a great spoiler of paper, and really not much good at anything but cutting reglet or reading proof, which my father never trusted to anyone but himself in any case.