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boff (third-person singular simple presentboffs,present participleboffing,simple past and past participleboffed)
- (slang) to havesexual intercourse (with someone)
1982, Stephen King,The Raft:Deke and LaVerne could go out to Cascade Lake together and plow the back forty all night; he would not be delighted with the knowledge that they wereboffing each other's brains out, yet neither would he be surprised.
boff (pluralboffs)
- (entertainment, slang) A biglaugh.
- (entertainment, slang) Aline in afilm etc thatelicits such a laugh.
1959 July 19,Walt Kelly,Pogo, Sunday, comic strip,→ISBN, page243:[Churchy, directing a comedy:] All right, Albert, here's yourboff gag... You say, "What's that in the road a-head?"
[Albert, actually seeing one:] A head! A head in the road!
[Churchy... eventually seeing it:] Stop clownin'... This sure-fire joke is serious—you got the line all... wrong?
- (entertainment, slang) A greatsuccess; ahit.
- Synonyms:boffo,clicko
Possibly shortened fromboffin.
boff (pluralboffs)
- (slang, derogatory) Apupil who works hard; aswot.
Imitative.
boff (third-person singular simple presentboffs,present participleboffing,simple past and past participleboffed)
- (slang, transitive) Tohit; tostrike.
2014, Waverly Curtis,The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice, page135:[…] something he'd found out the hard way when he was dating Kimberly Haney back in high school and her brother, Chad, big linebacker on the Roosevelt Roughriders football team, had taken exception andboffed him upside the head.
boff (pluralboffs)
- (slang) A hit or smack.
1937, Damon Runyon,A Piece of Pie:I am paying no attention to them, because they are drinking local ale, and talking loud, and long ago I learn that when a Boston character is engaged in aleing himself up, it is a good idea to let him alone, because the best you can get out of him is maybe aboff on the beezer.
