cliff-hang

Verb

cliffhang (third-person singular simple present cliffhangs, present participle cliffhanging, simple past and past participle cliffhung)

1. (figuratively, intransitive) To be in suspense.
   • 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...2009 February 1, Clare Clark, “An Appetite for Venice”, in New York Times