We got slightly overexcited about the design here without thinking about how clunky it might be to take out, so definitely riff on our idea.
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Video games such as “Gran Turismo 4” and “Guitar Hero” have used his riffs.
Guitar legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65|radmarya|October 6, 2020|Fortune
He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history.
Guitar legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65|radmarya|October 6, 2020|Fortune
The result was this 160-word riff, the sort of thing that will end up in history books as a marker of why the United States found itself in its current position.
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Not that the Shakespearean riff on/rip off is limited to novels.
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Remember the Woody Allen riff about “what terrible food, and such small portions” at a Catskill Resort?
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He repeated the same trick later on in his speech, starting a riff with "Take Obamacare—not literally, but figuratively."
Paul Ryan: Democrats Offer Americans a ‘Full Stomach and an Empty Soul’|Olivia Nuzzi|March 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then Harrison keeps the riff going while Lennon plays the solo, one of only a handful he played as a Beatle.
Was The Beatles’ Music Really That Unique? Yeah, It Totally Was.|Michael Tomasky|February 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I went everywhere he was, and I was just off-camera talking to him so we could riff stuff back-and-forth.
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Off the beaten track and anywhere in the Riff country his life would not be worth a flus (small copper coin).
In the Tail of the Peacock|Isabel Savory
At Riff everything was cast in a superior and more modern mould.
Notwithstanding|Mary Cholmondeley
His housekeeper, the stoutest woman in Riff, sister to the late Mr. Nicholls, had put his tea near him half an hour before.
Notwithstanding|Mary Cholmondeley
Many of the Moorish husbands leave their wives—the Riffis, for instance, going back into the Riff.
In the Tail of the Peacock|Isabel Savory
The punishment inflicted on the Riff pirates was soon forgotten, and they continued their depredations on British commerce.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves|W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for riff
riff
/ (rɪf) music /
noun
(in jazz or rock music) a short series of chords
verb
(intr)to play or perform riffs in jazz or rock music
informalto speak amusingly or make (amusing comments or remarks)
Word Origin for riff
C20: probably altered and shortened from refrain ²