plot hole

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See also: plothole

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plot hole (plural plot holes)

  1. (authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
    • 2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:
      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.

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