A candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning.

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).

synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider.

Roget 792: thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.], pilferer, rifler, filcher^†, plagiarist.    spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang], land shark, falcon, mosstrooper^†, bushranger^†, Bedouin^†, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit^†; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones^†, buccaneer, buccanier^†; piqueerer^†, pickeerer^†; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee^†, wrecker, picaroon^†; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger [Slang], bunko man, cattle thief, chor^†, contrabandist^†, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up [U.S.], jackleg [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin [Slang], sneak thief, spieler^†, strong-arm man [U.S.].    highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.    cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook [Slang], Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher [Slang]; defaulter; Autolycus^†, Jeremy Diddler^†, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob [Slang], chevalier d'industrie [Fr.]; shoplifter.    swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer; smasher.    burglar, housebreaker; cracksman^†, magsman [Slang]; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.    gang [group of thieves], gang of thieves, theft ring; organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra [It].    [famous thieves], Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood.    ... show more

Dutch: plunderaar, gewelddadige plunderaar, vrijbuiter, boekanier
Polish: szabrownik

Someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence.

synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer.

An airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds.

Dutch: spoiler
Polish: spojler, spoiler

A hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag.

Dutch: spoiler