cliff

/ˈklif/

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

noun

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

noun

  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

noun

  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