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plot holes

plot holes is the plural of plot hole.

Meaning of plot hole

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

Questions about plot holes

What is plot holes the plural of?
Plot holes is the plural of plot hole.

Words near plot holes in the dictionary

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

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