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cliffhanger
[ klif-hang-er ]
noun
- a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- a single installment in such a serial.
- a suspenseful movie, novel, etc.
- the suspenseful ending itself.
- a situation or contest of which the outcome is suspensefully uncertain up to the very last moment:
The game was a cliffhanger, but our team finally won.
cliffhanger
/ ˈklɪfˌhæŋə /
noun
- a situation of imminent disaster usually occurring at the end of each episode of a serialized film
- the serialized film itself
- a situation that is dramatic or uncertain
Derived Forms
- ˈcliffˌhanging, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cliffhanger1
Example Sentences
The South Korean drama series in which impoverished, debt-ridden citizens compete in deadly games in hopes of winning a life-changing amount of cash had ended its second season on a cliffhanger.
I ask Scott, who, fittingly, has never worked a real office job but played many office on-screen roles, how that cliffhanger has affected his latest character's psyche on the show's return.
We rejoin the macrodata refinement team five months after last season’s epic cliffhanger, when they breached the system by tripping Lumon’s “overtime contingency” mechanism, or OTC, to awaken their innies in the outside world.
The finale was a cliffhanger, leaving viewers wondering what will happen next to Mark, Helly, Irving and Dylan.
The customary end-of-episode cliffhanger saw either Fozia or Leon facing murder ahead of Wednesday's seventh episode in a card game called death match.
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