riff

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a short repeated pattern of notes in popular music or jazz: a guitar riff

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

riffEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus riffEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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