Biffed vs Riffed - What's the difference?
biffed | riffed |
(biff)
To strike such a blow.
(NZ, slang) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
(sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
(riff)
A repeated instrumental melody line in a song.
* {{quote-news
, year=2009
, date=November 27
, author=
, title=Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'
, work=BBC
A clever or witty remark.
A variation on something.
*2012 , The Economist,
A spoof
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes.
As verbs the difference between biffed and riffed
is that biffed is past tense of biff while riffed is past tense of riff.biffed
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(en verb)riffed
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*riff
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=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.}}
London Skyline: Tower Power
- Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism.
- The creative team has experience with spoofing: Both Rudd and Poehler had parts in Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, a hysterically irreverent riff on ’80s summer-camp comedies.