boffed; boffing; boffs
variants
or boffo
plural boffs or boffos
1
: a hearty laugh
2
: a gag or line that produces a hearty laugh
3
: something that is conspicuously successful : hit
Examples of boff in a Sentence
Noun
an old joke dating from the days of vaudeville that's still good for a boff
the emcee told some good boffs that kept the ceremony from becoming too serious
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Noun
Serena and Nate boff at a wedding reception on Gossip Girl
Two high-school students bump uglies on the bar of Michael Jordan's Steakhouse with a reception happening about two feet away.
—Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 25 July 2017
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“Boff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boff. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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