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- noun A rather old term which deserves to be brought back to the forefront of MUDspeke: a cliffy is a fact you tell a clueless newbie to stop them from pestering you for information (or, alternatively, as a joke). It can range from merely sending them on a wild goose chase ("Well where do you _think_ you'd find a gold club?") to the downright evil ("You use the <whatever they just asked about> to jump off the cliff" - this is the example which gave rise to the term). See scam, rumour, wind-up, fob.
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23rd September 1999: cliffy.htm