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plot hole en · NOUN

Meanings

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:

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Relateds

fridge logic

Translations (9)

he חור בעלילה (an inconsistence within a storyline) · fi juonellinen virhe (an inconsistence within a storyline) · fi juonellinen epäloogisuus (an inconsistence within a storyline) · pt furo na trama (an inconsistence within a storyline) · es laguna argumental (an inconsistence within a storyline) · it buco di trama (an inconsistence within a storyline) · fi juonellinen aukko (an inconsistence within a storyline) · de Ungereimtheit (an inconsistence within a storyline) · fr intriguérence (an inconsistence within a storyline)