RIFF meaning: Repeated musical phrase in song

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word riff:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

riff: Merriam-Webster.com
riff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Riff, riff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
riff: Collins English Dictionary
Riff, riff: Vocabulary.com
Riff, riff: Wordnik
riff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
RIFF, riff: Wiktionary
riff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
riff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
riff: Infoplease Dictionary
riff: Dictionary.com
riff: Online Etymology Dictionary
riff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
RIFF (File format), RIFF, Riff (American band), Riff (Argentine band), Riff (character), Riff (disambiguation), Riff (music), Riff, The Riff (Lordi song), The Riff, .riff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
riff: Rhymezone
Riff (nt): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
riff: Free Dictionary
riff: Mnemonic Dictionary
Riff, riff: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
Riff: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format): Multimedia Glossary
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

RIFF: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
Webopedia (No longer online)
riff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

RIFF: Acronym Finder
riff: A Word A Day
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
riff: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

riff, riff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
the riff: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
▸ noun:  A clever or witty remark.
▸ noun:  A variation on something.
▸ noun:  A spoof.
▸ verb:  To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes.
▸ verb:  To riffle.
▸ noun:  (anatomy, archaic) The belly; the bowels.
▸ noun:  (computing) Acronym of Resource Interchange File Format.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of Rif (“mountains in Morocco”) [A mountainous region in northern Morocco.]

Similar:

thumb, flick, flip, riffle, leaf, Riffian, riffer, rhapsody, rasgueo, riff-raff, more...

Types:

lick, run, motif, figure, arpeggio, passage, sequence, theme, more...

Phrases:

guitar riff, riff raff, Oriental riff, Arabian riff, Hurray for the Riff Raff, more...

Adjectives:

little, main, simple, same, note, new, catchy, basic, short, long, musical

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