Riffage

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    guitar riffs informal, uncountable

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From riff + -age.

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