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Riff   /rɪf/   Listen
Riff

noun
1.
A Berber living in northern Morocco.  Synonym: Riffian.
2.
A jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation.
verb
1.
Look through a book or other written material.  Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb.  "She leafed through the volume"
2.
Play riffs.





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"Riff" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom the only passion excited by a beautiful woman is a lust to see her tortured and torn shrieking limb from limb. It is a crime to dignify that passion. It is offering yourself for violation by the whole rabble of the streets and the riff-raff of the court at the same time. Why will you not choose rather a kindly love ...
— Androcles and the Lion • George Bernard Shaw
... anarchy. And in every city it was going on, this rallying of the malcontents, the idlers, the envious and the dangerous, to the red flag. Organized labor gathered together the workmen, but men like Doyle were organizing the riff-raff of the country. They secured a small percentage of idealists and pseudo-intellectuals, and taught them a so-called internationalism which under the name of brotherhood was nothing but a raid on private property, a scheme of pillage and arson. ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... striving to drive a dogcart with slender success and complaining loudly of obstruction. Respectable working women were there, together with their husbands, having finished the day's work; country folk who dropped into town on the Saturday had been attracted to the scene; the riff-raff of Muirtown had come out from their dens and lodging-houses, together with that casual population which has nothing particular to do and is glad of any excitement. They were of various kinds and different degrees of respectability, but they were all collected in ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
... on the way, "your uncle is very generous to want to help these fellows across the line that are broke. But they are riff-raff. He will lose every dollar of it. I know them. Good Lord! haven't I befriended them, and helped them fifty ways? And do they appreciate it? Well, ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby


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