Usually means: Extremely shocking or suspenseful experience.
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  1. heart-stopping: Merriam-Webster
  2. heart-stopping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heart-stopping: Wordnik
  4. heart-stopping: Wiktionary
  5. heart-stopping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

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adjective:  Alternative spelling of heartstopping [Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.]

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