Usually means: Ending abruptly, suspense until resolved.
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  1. cliffhanger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. cliffhanger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cliffhanger: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cliffhanger: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cliffhanger, cliffhanger: Wordnik
  6. cliffhanger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cliffhanger: Wiktionary
  8. cliffhanger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cliffhanger: Dictionary.com
  10. cliffhanger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Cliffhanger (Colorado roller coaster), Cliffhanger (band), Cliffhanger (comics), Cliffhanger (disambiguation), Cliffhanger (film), Cliffhanger (ride), Cliffhanger (video game), Cliffhanger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cliffhanger: Rhymezone
  13. cliffhanger: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cliffhanger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Cliffhanger: The Word Detective
  16. cliffhanger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. cliffhanger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. cliffhanger: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cliffhanger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cliffhanger: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. cliffhanger: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.
noun:  (by extension) An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute.

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