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Cliffs Notes

[ klifs ]

Trademark.
  1. a series of pamphlets with summaries and basic analyses of works of literature, intended as study aids.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cliffs Notes1

After Cliff Hillegass, founder of Cliffs Notes, Inc.
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Example Sentences

Those are eye-catching lowlights, Cliffs Notes for a concerning trend.

Doerr’s entertaining and intricate novel wasn’t one that called out for Cliffs Notes.

But for anyone who got an A-minus or lower in high school physics and longs for the Cliffs Notes version, here it is: Our universe is large, far larger than we can conceive of, and possibly part of a strangely behaved multiverse, and it all started from a point infinitesimally small that erupted in a bang indescribably big.

“I would like to do digital programs, maybe 15 to 20 minutes on the website. Like Cliffs Notes,” Jaffe continued.

“I sort of gave her the Cliffs Notes version, to give her some inspiration.”

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