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say it: rif
riff is a noun and verb meaning "a Berber living in northern Morocco". It is pronounced /ˈɹɪf/ — rif. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation
look through a book or other written material
“He thumbed through the report”
“She leafed through the volume”
play riffs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for riff come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.