Cliff Notes - Wiktionary

Jump to content

Contents

move to sidebar hide

• Beginning
• 1 English Toggle English subsection
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Synonyms
  • 1.4 See also

• Entry
• Discussion

English

• Read
• Edit
• View history

Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions

• Read
• Edit
• View history

General

• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Permanent link
• Page information
• Cite this page
• Get shortened URL
• Download QR code

Print/export

• Create a book
• Download as PDF
• Printable version

In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: cliff notes

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

• cliff notes

Etymology

[edit]

From the given name Clifton. Derived from Cliff's notes, a series of literature study guides published by Clifton Hillegass.

Noun

[edit]

Cliff notes pl (plural only)

1. (US) A rundown (rough outline) of a situation, event, etc.
   • 2012, Gary Wayne Clark, The Devolution Chronicles: Rise of the Chimera, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 105:Ryker stepped forward and blurted out the cliff notes of the current crisis.
   • 2014, CP Moore, Legacy of the Gods, CP Moore, →ISBN:Well, of course there's more, a lot more. But that's the cliff notes of what faces us once we find Sanderson.
   • 2015, Jack Fisher, The Escort and the Gigolo, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:“If this is you being serious, I'll just give you the cliff notes of the plan for tonight,” said Ray.
   • 2017, “What North Korea Wants”, in Reuters War College‎[1]:Can you give us the, the Cliff notes version of that?

Synonyms

[edit]

• CliffsNotes version
• Coles Notes (Canada)

See also

[edit]

• cheat sheet
• crib
• crib sheet

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff_notes&oldid=83545509" Categories:

• English genericized trademarks
• English eponyms
• English lemmas
• English nouns
• English multiword terms
• English pluralia tantum
• American English
• English terms with quotations

Hidden categories:

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 1 entry

Search Search Toggle the table of contents Cliff notes 2 languages Add topic