Normally refers to a guitar scale/melody, but can be applied to more than just guitar.
Usually one riff, followed by another in rapid succession.
Said riffs must be awesome. If they are lame and put together, you cannot achieve riffage simply because riffage sounds badass, both in context and literally.
A series of awesome riffs put together to achieve maximum badassery for a song.
Me: "Dude, check out this riffage."
Person: "Holy Shit dude, that's some serious riffage."
~or~
Me: "DUDE CHECK OUT THIS SWEET RIFFAGE!!!1!"
Person: "This isn't riffage, man. Riffage sounds awesome, this sounds like poo."
Me: :2[
Meshuggah, Ion Dissonance, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza and many other spacial music worms in the hole deserve to be cranked up to maximal volume, as it then yields minimalistic earaches to our well-known field of energy and our set of information, which in a symbiotic relationship a certificate creature crapture kreau. Thus, the mighty chugging riffage entered this time and space and it is still alive and kicking good-arses.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.