RIF again

[David K. Barnhart]

The expansion of this initialism (reduction in force), without the form RIF,
appears in Google Books:



"Report of the Philippine Commission" (1910).



Rif and riffed appear in Spears' NTC Dictionary of American Slang (1989) but
without e.q. [early quote dates].



I found riffed in:

The Air Force Magazine (c. 1958),

An Introduction to American Politics (c. 1954)





DKB



Barnhart at highlands.com

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