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• 0 in jazz or popular music, a tune that continues or appears regularly in a piece of music while other parts change or are added:

  • The song is punctuated by long guitar riffs.

• 1 something that is slightly different to the usual form:

  • Pistachio-parmesan truffles are a fun riff on those nut-covered cheese balls your mum used to make.

  • His ingenious riff on the original script delights and provokes.

• 2 in jazz or popular music, to play a short, repeated series of notes :

  • The singer growled over acoustic guitar while his bandmates riffed on banjo, ukulele, and fiddle.

• 3 to speak for a long time on a particular subject, especially in a humorous way:

  • He strutted and riffed on topics from global warming to parenthood.

• 4 (in popular music) a simple tune that is used as a pattern for creating more complicated musical patterns