"cliffhang" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from cliffhanger.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cliffhangs",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cliffhanging",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "cliffhung",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cliffhung",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2009 February 1, Clare Clark, “An Appetite for Venice”, in New York Times",
          "text": "With furtive references to Gnostic gospels and a cast of characters that includes a beautiful blond novice (with whom Luciano fancies himself in love), a corrupt council of cardinals, a syphilitic doge and the brutal Cappe Nere, or secret police, all abroad in Venice’s sinister maze of watery alleyways, the scene looks set for a cliffhanging thriller in the style of “The Da Vinci Code.”",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be in suspense."
      ],
      "id": "en-cliffhang-en-verb-VRKJCtP3",
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        [
          "suspense",
          "suspense"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be in suspense."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cliff-hang"
        }
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  "word": "cliffhang"
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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from cliffhanger.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cliffhangs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cliffhanging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cliffhung",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cliffhung",
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        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "2009 February 1, Clare Clark, “An Appetite for Venice”, in New York Times",
          "text": "With furtive references to Gnostic gospels and a cast of characters that includes a beautiful blond novice (with whom Luciano fancies himself in love), a corrupt council of cardinals, a syphilitic doge and the brutal Cappe Nere, or secret police, all abroad in Venice’s sinister maze of watery alleyways, the scene looks set for a cliffhanging thriller in the style of “The Da Vinci Code.”",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in suspense."
      ],
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          "suspense",
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        "(intransitive) To be in suspense."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cliff-hang"
    }
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  "word": "cliffhang"
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