cliffhanger
cliffhanger
Definition
☆ cliff·hanger (-haŋ′ər)
noun
- an early type of serialized film in which each episode ended with a suspenseful climax, as the hero hanging from a cliff
- any highly suspenseful story, situation, etc.
cliff′·hang′·ing adjective or cliff′·-hang′ing
cliffhanger
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: It doesn't have an ending, it has a cliffhanger.
- see: The final episode caused more upset when it ended on one of the most dramatic cliffhangers seen on UK television for many years.
Preposition: at
- end: Also, I like the cliffhanger at the end.
Adjective modifier
- good: The end of episode 2 is a good cliffhanger which makes you think is Ace really finished this time!
- real: The second was a real cliffhanger with Lewis taking the game 16-14, from a 10-8 deficit.
- dramatic: The final episode caused more upset when it ended on one of the most dramatic cliffhangers seen on UK television for many years.
- brilliant: The ending is a brilliant cliffhanger for the next book - Outcast!
- massive: Yes, there's a massive cliffhanger of an ending.
- great: One great cliffhanger does not a good story make.
Modifies a noun
- ending: Scorpia created a stir among its huge legion of fans on release due to its gripping cliffhanger ending.
- finale: With a cliffhanger finale, the Bodge Job is the caper movie to beat them all.
- moment: Each of these is a bit of an episode, the cliffhanger moment from ' Heart of Hearts ' .
- episode: I had a brief from upstairs that this was the cliffhanger episode that would lead to series two.
- situation: I wake before I find out how I'm going to get out of this cliffhanger situation I've put myself in.
Noun used with modifier
- season: This is the series that invented the season cliffhanger and left the world guessing Who Shot JR?
Browse dictionary entries near cliffhanger
- cliff swallow
- cliff dweller
- cliff
- clientele
- client/server
- client mesh
- Client Computer
- client
- CLID
- clicketyclack
- Clifford
- Clifton
- climacteric
- climactic
- climate
- climatology
- climax
- climb
- climb down
- climber
