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riffage

riffage noun: guitar riffs.

Noun

riffage (uncountable)

  1. (informal) guitar riffs
    • One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38

Origin of riffage

From riff + -age.

Questions about riffage

What does riffage mean?
Riffage means guitar riffs.
What part of speech is riffage?
Riffage is a noun.

Words near riffage in the dictionary

  1. rifest
  2. riff
  3. riff-raff
  4. riff-raffs
  5. riff-raffy
  6. riffage
  7. riffed
  8. Riffel
  9. Riffels
  10. riffer
  11. rifferama

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