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noun(cliff)a very steep, vertical, or overhanging face of rock, earth, or ice : precipice
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noun(cliff)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
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noun(cliff)a member of any cliff-dwelling people
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noun(cliff)a resident of a large usually metropolitan apartment building
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noun(cliff)an adventure serial or melodrama; especially : one presented in installments each ending in suspense
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noun(cliff)a contest whose outcome is in doubt up to the very end; broadly : a suspenseful situation
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noun(cliff)a colonial swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) of the New World with a pale buff rump and dark throat patch that builds mud nests resembling jugs especially under eaves and on cliffs
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geographical name(cliff)site of cliff-dweller ruins in southwestern New Mexico