Definitions for RIFF

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RIFF riff

Spelling: [rif]

IPA: /rɪf/

Riff is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in RIFF (ffir).

Definitions for RIFF

noun

1. a melodic phrase, often constantly repeated, forming an accompaniment or part of an accompaniment for a soloist.
2. a member of the Berber people living in Er Rif in northern Morocco.
3. Er Rif.
4. Er [er] /ɛr/ (Show IPA) a mountainous coastal region in N Morocco.

verb (used with object)

1. rif.
2. to discharge (a person) from military or civil service, especially as part of an economy program.

verb (used without object)

1. to perform riffs.

Origin of RIFF

First recorded in 1930-35; perhaps alteration and shortening of refrain²

Examples for RIFF

In the riff he might be potted at, he might not: he would risk that.

riff suffered as every other village in Great Britain suffered.

Then Harrison keeps the riff going while Lennon plays the solo, one of only a handful he played as a Beatle.

Not that the Shakespearean riff on/rip off is limited to novels.

And between the park and the river lies the hidden village of riff.

The crowd was there to listen to Chappelle riff on everything from the Wu-Tang Clan to Barack Obama to gay rights.

He repeated the same trick later on in his speech, starting a riff with "Take Obamacare—not literally, but figuratively."

To explore the unknown riff country would be interesting indeed.

And between the road and the river lies the village of riff.

Remember the Woody Allen riff about “what terrible food, and such small portions” at a Catskill Resort?