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| MacGuffin [ mə gúffin ] (plural MacGuffins) |
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| Definition: |
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device giving impetus to plot: in a film, play, or book, something that starts or drives the action of the plot but later turns out to be unimportant
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| [Mid-20th century. Said to come from a story in which a man pretends to have a 'macguffin', a Scottish mountain lion, but admits it does not exist] |
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