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RIFFAGE

Specialty Definition: RIFFAGE

DomainDefinition

Slang

Adj. Source: Most likely came from the term riff which is used for guitarists. Definition: A bunch of riffs in succession, which are short catchy guitar tunes. Context: Used when discussing music with one's friends that are also interested in music too. Social Source: Good Time Boys. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RIFFAGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

riffage

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: RIFFAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: giraffe.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-g-i-r"

-1 letter: gaffer, griffe.

-2 letters: afire, feria, fifer, gaffe, grief, griff.

-3 letters: ager, fair, fare, fear, fiar, fief, fife, fire, frae, frag, frig, gaff, gear, raff, rage, ragi, reif, rife, riff.

-4 letters: aff, age, air, are, arf, ear, eff, era, erg, fag, far, fer, fie, fig, fir, gae, gar, gie, iff, ire, rag, ref, reg, rei.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-g-i-r"
 

+1 letter: firefang, giraffes.

 

+2 letters: firefangs.

 

+3 letters: affrighted, chaffering, firefanged, gauffering, reaffixing, restaffing.

 

+4 letters: afforesting, cliffhanger, firefanging, reaffirming.

 

+5 letters: chauffeuring, cliffhangers, overstaffing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RIFFAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 49 46 46 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    ..    ..-.    ..-.    .-    --.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01001001 01000110 01000110 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#73 &#70 &#70 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0049 0046 0046 0041 0047 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52434040354139

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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