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when a person begins telling you a story that drags on and on and is full of irrelevant details and not getting to the point... you can hurry things up by asking for "cliffs".

- derived from cliff notes
"Hey, hey, i dont want you life story just gimme the cliffs!"
cliffs by aaronbbb June 12, 2006

Cliffs of Dover 

Cliffs of Dover is a song by instrumental Rock artist Eric Johnson (Johnson does sing in some of his other songs but Cliffs of Dover is instrumental.

Cliffs of Dover was first released on Johnson's "Ah Via Musicom" in 1990 and won a Grammy for Johnson for Best Instrumental Rock Performance in 1991.

Several versions of the song exist however since Johnson almost never plays the song the same way twice, commonly the intro or outro will have distinct variations in it which distinguish the version from others.

The song is also noted as one of the last songs played on the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock video game. The version on the game is a cover though and was not performed by Johnson himself. "Cliffs of Dover" has done for Eric Johnson what "Through the Fire and Flames" has done for DragonForce.
We went to the Steve Miller show and I didn't know the opening act but Dan went wild when this song he says is called Cliffs of Dover came on.
Cliffs of Dover by Sid Barrett February 1, 2008

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

Cliffside Park 

A town that's overly populated but there is absolutely NOTHING to do there. Want to sit on your ass all day? GO TO CLIFFSIDE PARK!
dude: I visited my grandma in Cliffside Park yesterday.
dudette: What did you do?
dude: Nothing

The Cliffs of Insanity

A series of shoreline cliffs of unnatural height, marking the border of Gilder.
THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY! --Vizzini, The Princess Bride (1987)