MacGuaff 

Something that is really large or oversized in some way.

"That is one MacGuaff computer Rob has, he installed 24 gigabytes of RAM".

"That is a MacGuaff can of bean salad that you bought from the wholesaler today, looks like it was meant for catering, it's somewhere in the region of 10 litres."

MacGuaff by cititracker April 30, 2010

MacGuffin 

in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively.

Originally coined by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a story where this device was used in a story set on a Scottish train.

(sometimes called a McGuffin)

The suitcase in Pulp Fiction is a modern example of a MacGuffin.

MacGuffin by soma616 May 16, 2006

macguffin 

A plot device that motivates the characters and advance the story, particularly one whose importance is accepted completely by the story's characters, yet from the audience's perspective it might be minimally explained or may test their suspension of disbelief if it is scrutinized. The device, usually an object, is common in films, especially thrillers.
It is important that the audience never actually see the MacGuffin. I dunno why.

The term "MacGuffin" was invented by Alfred Hitchcock; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, he explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University:

In regard to the tune, we have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin'. It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers.

Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story:

It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?' And the other answers, 'Oh that's a McGuffin.' The first one asks 'What's a McGuffin?' 'Well' the other man says, 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.' The first man says, 'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands,' and the other one answers 'Well, then that's no McGuffin!' So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.

macguffin by Laser Potato July 15, 2008

MacGuffles

The absolute most awesome person alive. Anyone who has this name is also considered a god. He/She has a destiny of lots of money. MacGuffles is also a state of mind that's better than NIRVANA.

MacGuffles

MacGuffles by emacguffie16 April 25, 2011

macguffinium 

state of an object whose sole use is to advance the scenario, by its preciousness, its misunderstanding by science, or its emotional link by the main character.

1: why do you keep/follow this object?
2: because it's made on macguffinium!

macguffinium by ovanossar August 7, 2018

macguffinite

A fictional material, not necessarily bad, that is used to patch up logic in a story

Dude, I loved the game "death stranding" but I feel like those "chiral christals" were a bit of a macguffinite

macguffinite by Tonk of the standard issue July 27, 2021

MacGuffin Coochie 

Sex from a certain girl that is extremley valued to a certain group of people to a point where it is talked about as the holy grail in life.

"I finally got to tap MacGuffin Coochie! It is just as I have dreamed and as incredible as you have to described it to be!"

MacGuffin Coochie by Itain'tObeeezy November 2, 2024