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Meanings of riff in English

Russian
рифф
Portuguese
rifs
Spanish
riff
Catalan
riff

Repeated chord progression or refrain in music.

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рифф

Look through a book or other written material.

A Berber living in northern Morocco.

Usage of riff in English
1
The swooning riff on Kinder Blumenis a work of great, intricate beauty.
The Irish Times
2
It was called New Rose and its riff has never been bettered.
The Irish Times
3
The first thing that happened was the riff and off I went.
Radio NZ
4
Nikki just let them riff and walked the rest of the apartment.
Frozen Heat
5
Brand-name footballers riff that gets desperate very quickly indeed: a top ten.
The Guardian
6
His riff on Trump firing FBI director James Comey was next level.
The South African
7
Think Freddie Mercury singing Wuthering Heights to a headbanging punk guitar riff.
The Irish Times
8
You'll do well to lower the bar further than Thursday's Scrabble riff.
The Guardian
9
All the riff-raff from the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line gather here, all the cutthroats.
Metro 2033
10
We haven't been hearing my favorite riff from '70s music at all.
The new yorker
11
The rap beats start again and a slinky electric guitar riff plays.
News.com.au
12
Find the riff-raff and you find the perpetrator, that was his motto.
The ice princess
13
Its riff sounds like something Johnny Marr might've devised for the Smiths.
The Guardian
14
The EU's new airline pollution tax is a new riff on that theme.
Reuters
15
Even more high-profile roles saw her continue to riff on her own personality.
The Guardian
16
And New Zealand has always been partial to a good old rock riff.
Radio NZ
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Translations for riff
Russian
рифф
Portuguese
rifsriffriffs
Spanish
riffriffs
Catalan
riff
Riff through the time
Riff across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common