cliffsnotes 

gets you out of reading the actual book and uses normal words, easy way to understand novels that use old english

Guy 1: I can't read that book. They use weird words.
Guy 2: Dude, I read the cliffsnotes and I understand it.

cliffsnotes by Daniel3000 November 8, 2008

cliffsnotes 

cliffs notes is a company that makes books that tell you the gist of a certain topic. However, they dont make books on everything, so you can give your own cliffs notes on a topic, and you call them cliff notes.

Me: Here are the notes from my testing: BlahBlahBlahBlah
You: tl;dr
Me: ok here are the cliffsnotes: It didn't fucking work.

cliffsnotes by ms34m3 January 20, 2012

hit em with the cliffnotes

When two guys are having gay sex but one or both of them are not really into it so they don't put much effort into it.

Gay guy #1: Did you and Sebastian get it on last night?
Gay guy #2: Yeah, but I was tuckered out so I just hit em with the cliffnotes.

hit em with the cliffnotes by Amoebabadass May 9, 2018

cliffnotes 

"I got the cliffnotes." noun. Used to brush people off during a potentially long-winded story or explanation of current events.

When someone is talking or telling you a story and you don't want to hear it, say "Thanks but I have the cliffnotes," to shut them up. This works in many ways, like if someone asks if you've seen a movie, etc., you can say you have the cliffnotes (to the movie). You can experiment and enjoy pissing people off.

cliffnotes by mike viviano June 13, 2007

hit em with the cliffnotes

when ya boy needs to get caught up to speed but he ain't got time for that, so you hit em with the cliffnotes.

"I was running late to a meeting and I finally saw my homeboyz so I hit em with the cliffnotes of what I did over the weekend"

hit em with the cliffnotes by dsizzle96 February 21, 2017