boffo
English
editEtymology
editEntertainment industry slang; possibly from box office or buffo. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈbɒfoʊ/
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Adjective
editboffo (comparative more boffo, superlative most boffo)
- (chiefly US, slang) Outstanding; very good or successful.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
- “Come on, Lana. Give me and the bird a chance. We're boffo.”
- 2022 December 22, Peter Rainer, “Beyond the blockbusters: The 10 best films of 2022”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- And if the Hollywood stuff didn’t grab you, you could glom onto “RRR,” S.S. Rajamouli’s phenomenally successful Raj-era Indian action epic that, for sheer boffo exuberance, outdid anything the studios churned out this year.
Noun
editboffo (plural boffos)
Further reading
edit- “boffo adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- Eric Partridge (2005) “boffo”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 213.