English Dictionary

riff

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪf/

名詞

A repeated instrumental melody line in a song. / A clever or witty remark. / A variation on something. / A spoof.

日本語の意味

楽曲における繰り返される楽器演奏のフレーズ / 機知に富んだ一言、鋭い冗談 / 何かの変奏、変化 / パロディ、模倣

The guitarist practiced the riff until it was flawless.

ギタリストはその繰り返される楽器のメロディーラインを完璧に弾けるまで練習した。

意味（1）

A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.

Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has been named the greatest guitar riff of all time, 41 years after it was recorded, in a poll by website Music Radar.

意味（2）

A clever or witty remark.

Pope Francis delivers off-the-cuff riff on family life

意味（3）

A variation on something.

Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism.

意味（4）

A spoof.

The creative team has experience with spoofing: Both [Paul] Rudd and [Amy] Poehler had parts in [David] Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, a hysterically irreverent riff on ’80s summer-camp comedies.

riffs （ plural ）