Definitions for Riffs

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Spelling: [rif]

IPA: /rɪf/

Riffs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Riffs (ffirs).

Definitions for Riffs

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 Riffs

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

Examples for Riffs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To explore the unknown riff country would be interesting indeed.

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.