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subplot

[suhb-plot]

noun

  1. a secondary or subordinate plot, as in a play, novel, or other literary work; underplot.



subplot

/ ˈʌˌɒ /

noun

  1. a subordinate or auxiliary plot in a novel, play, film, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of subplot1

First recorded in 1915–20; sub- + plot
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He's also mired in a minor subplot, but at least he has six seasons of history for us to draw upon.

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A subplot in the second season of the hit Disney+ show “Andor” focuses on the abuses undocumented agricultural workers face.

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Of every possible subplot, it’s hard to think of a worse one than Chris and Braxton’s hunt to find a family of disappeared Salvadorans.

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Rather, he embeds us in the warm, casual messiness of the couple’s domestic life, underlined most amusingly by a seemingly superfluous subplot involving Ono researching how to obtain live flies for her latest art installation.

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A brief subplot is wholly dedicated to the latter, in fact, as a matter of waking up Matt to the folly of his faith in systems.

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