0 a story or a situation that is exciting because its ending or result is uncertain until it happens:
1 a story or situation, often dangerous or of great importance, where two opposite results are possible and you do not know what the result will be until the last moment:
Of those that start, fewer will be able to survive the natural cliffhangers that automatically affect any business.
I am afraid that, like many cliffhangers, it turned out to be a disappointment.
He has once again left us in a cliffhanger situation.
The title card, recap sequences and cliffhanger screen and the opening and closing credits were komiks-inspired.
A recap will almost always be present in an episode that picks up from a cliffhanger.
Unlike its predecessor, the series does not involve time traveling and will be set in the present, resolving the loose ends left by the cliffhanger.
A second season aired eight episodes, ending with a cliffhanger.
And just when you thought things just couldn't get any crummier, the bonus chapter also ends on an abrupt, insultingly unfinished cliffhanger.