riffage

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noun

guitar riffs

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Meanings

nounriffage (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableguitar 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

From riff + -age.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

riffage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/riffage

MLA

“riffage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/riffage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “riffage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/riffage.

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