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bof⋅fo

  [bof-oh] noun, plural -fos, adjective Slang.
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–noun
1. boff.
–adjective
2. highly effective or successful: He gave a boffo performance as Cyrano.
Also, boff⋅o⋅la  [bo-foh-luh] .

Origin:
perh. alter. of buffo or bouffe
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boff 1   (bŏf)   
n.   Slang

  1. A line in a play or film, for example, that elicits a big laugh: "He doesn't go for the big boffs, artificially inflated, but lets his comedy build through a leisurely accumulation of bizarre details" (Vincent Canby).

  2. A big laugh.

  3. A conspicuous success. Also called boffo, boffola.


[Probably from b(ox) off(ice).]
bof·fo   (bŏf'ō)   
adj.  Extremely successful; great.
n.   pl. bof·fos
See boff1.

[Alteration of boff1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
boffo [ˈbɑfo]

  1. n.
    a box-office hit; a successful play, musical, movie, etc. : The last one was a tremendous boffo, but we only broke even.
  2. mod.
    successful; tremendous. : Another boffo success for Willy!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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