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plot hole

plot hole noun: a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.

Noun

plot hole (plural plot holes)

  1. A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
    • Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN
    • For every hardcore fan who found themselves in floods of tears by the end, there was a disgruntled TikToker aggressively listing all the plot holes the episode left unfilled in its race to the finish line.2026 January 5, Stuart Heritage, “In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of plot hole

pluralplot holes
alternative formplothole

Questions about plot hole

What does plot hole mean?
Plot hole means a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
What part of speech is plot hole?
Plot hole is a noun.
What is the plural of plot hole?
The plural of plot hole is plot holes.

Words near plot hole in the dictionary

  1. plot bunny
  2. plot coupon
  3. plot coupons
  4. plot device
  5. plot devices
  6. plot hole
  7. plot holes
  8. plot line
  9. plot lines
  10. plot out
  11. plot point

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