riff in English

noun
1
(in popular music and jazz) a short repeated phrase, frequently played over changing chords or harmonies or used as a background to a solo improvisation.
a brilliant guitar riff
verb
1
play musical riffs.
the other horns would be riffing behind him

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1. A riff on strongly-typed.

2. Beholden To The Riff, Portland, Oregon

3. You think Riff and B know Ponti?

4. Riff: a string of words or musical notes.

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7. Recruited young tearaways and hooligans, street thugs and riff-raff.

8. We don't want to let all the riff-raff in.

9. JBLM Bandsmen representing the Army one riff at a time

10. Miss Green can ask in what riff-raff she chooses!

11. Hot Buttered cider is a delicious riff on hot Buttered rum

12. The most outrageously original vocals coupled with the living acid riff.

13. Rowe does a very clever riff on the nature of prejudice.

14. The songs are assembled around the riff, with the guitar solo taking prominence.

15. The Berbers’ basic tribal groups are Tamazight, Riff, Shluh, Tuareg, and Kabyll

16. Take one isolated musical idea, such as a single chord or riff.

17. The Avi format is based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF)

18. The strong single Barney Rubble is completed by a Merseyside, chiming guitar riff.

19. The Bellmen's comedy riff and deadpan humor follows the beat of its own drum

20. His ear is magnificent, capturing each subtle shade of accent and edge, each riff of language.

21. There are always riff - raffs hanging around Jason's home givesthethat Jason is not a good guy.

22. The Bellmen's comedy riff and deadpan humor follows the beat of its own drum

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24. Carry On is a fun riff on the Harry Potter world, and Harry Potter fanfiction in particular

25. Kudos to Bobby - a funny riff to blow the minds of a room full of peaking Acidheads

26. 15 The next example is the catchy syncopated intro riff taken from the single Teaser.

27. Now try playing a riff, single note, or melody that reflects the events in your mind.

28. The wah-wah riff to the next track we looked at, Dragonfly, is shown in fig

29. Both Opel and Vauxhall used the guitar riff from "Layla" in their advertising campaigns throughout 1987–95.

30. ‘Comatosed’ is the one to dance along too with its catchy guitar riff and keys accompaniment

31. When our buckets are full, we top the tour with a skidding riff of singing sand.

32. The song takes its intro and ending guitar riff from Mozart's Alla Turca: Allegretto in A minor (1783).

33. Wrote this riff in 2015, in fact it’s the channel trailer on the Appellative YouTube account if I remember correctly

34. "Bankroll" is a song by Rich The Kid featuring Young Thug, RiFF RAFF2 and Justin Bieber

35. I was working on another song and came up with the riff and then I just started freestyling."

36. Convulsions=Mod Punk Soul Funk: High energy, riff based retro, smartly dressed screaming anti-establishment rhetoric interposed with groove

37. A riff on strongly-typed. Used to describe animplementation that needlessly relies on strings when programmer- andrefactor-friendly options are available.

38. The Avi format is based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), a container format used to store multimedia data.

39. The milder Chartreuse is a perfect ingredient to use in light spritzers, like this riff on a Tom Collins

40. You might get a bass riff or something, as a hook for the song, but the solos were strictly adlib.

41. "Pretty Target" starts with a guitar riff that's bordering on indie; just add a violin and were back to Levelling the Land again.

42. "If Corrie wrote the original melody for soaps, it's alright for the other soaps to riff off that and go a bit jazzy

43. Avi files consist of one RIFF "chunk" tagged as Avi and divided into "subchunks," each identified by Microsoft's FOURCC four character code.

44. I wrote this guitar riff that ended up being the line that the horns play and just a few lyrics that were rolling around in my head...

45. Whittle, whose primary area of research relates to galaxy formation,[http://Sentencedict.com] presented his cosmic riff at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver.

46. The first of many Bafflements in “The Hateful Eight,” Quentin Tarantino’s tedious comic riff on spaghetti Westerns (with a spirited score by the genre’s iconic Ennio Morricone ), concerns

47. Ryan Dusheiko, general manager of Riff Raff's, a new tiki-themed club in the Flatiron district, put it simply, "It's not what you're wearing; it's who you are."

48. Nothing about what she said was radical — it was no more than a modern riff on Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous dictum that "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."

49. ‘The bouncy tempo and scale-based riff are the sparsest elements on the whole album and after 40 minutes of extraordinarily dense arrangements the Aridness is a nice change of pace.’

50. The contrabass, too, in its syncopated, jazz-style solo, explores a higher altitude than is normal in Old Music, but this bass riff does not change a note of the original.