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    [Noun]  | "cliff" | \ ˈklif \


    1: a very steep, vertical, or overhanging face of rock, earth, or ice : precipice

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English clif, from Old English; akin to Old High German klep cliff, Old Norse klif;

    [Noun]  | "cliff dweller" 


    1: a member of a prehistoric American Indian people of the southwestern U.S. who built their homes on rock ledges or in the natural recesses of canyon walls and cliffs

    2: a member of any cliff-dwelling people

    3: a resident of a large usually metropolitan apartment building

    Origin: 1875 ;

    [Noun]  | "cliff-hang*er" | \ ˈklif-ˌhaŋ-ər \


    1: an adventure serial or melodrama; especially : one presented in installments each ending in suspense

    2: a contest whose outcome is in doubt up to the very end; broadly : a suspenseful situation

    Origin: circa 1931 ;

    [Noun]  | "cliff swallow" 


    1: a colonial swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) of the New World with a pale buff rump and dark throat patch that builds mud nests resembling jugs especially under eaves and on cliffs

    Origin: 1823 ;

    [Geographical name]  | "Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument" 


    1: site of cliff-dweller ruins in southwestern New Mexico

    [Noun]  | "cliff" 


    1: a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice;


      * e.g., " ... the cliff rises 200 feet from the island's south shore "



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    [Noun]  | "cliff dwellers" 


    [Noun]  | "cliff dweller" 


    [Noun]  | "cliff-hanger" 


    1: something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome;


      * e.g., " ... finally, a Super Bowl game that turned out to be a real cliff-hanger "



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    [Noun]  | "cliff-hangers" 


    1: something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome;


      * e.g., " ... finally, a Super Bowl game that turned out to be a real cliff-hanger "



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