Riffage
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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