Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun macguffin

1 sense of macguffin

Sense 1
McGuffin, MacGuffin -- ((film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot; "the McGuffin was a key element of Alfred Hitchcock's films")
       => plot element -- (a component or element of the plot of a story)