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boffs

noun

variants or boffos

plural of boff

as in chuckles

an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement an old joke dating from the days of vaudeville that's still good for a boff

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as in jokes

something said or done to cause laughter the emcee told some good boffs that kept the ceremony from becoming too serious

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Noun

Wickersham says, with only the slightest of chuckles, that every quarterback is something of a sociopath and likens them to politicians in the middle of a race.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
Brian Leonard’s smartly funny ode to his difficult daughter — a child whose behavior was so problematic, the family cycled through 28 therapists — offers plenty of chuckles, even with key questions left unanswered.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of chuckles

Noun

The set includes a variety of items, including a new book entitled Slappy’s Book of Pranks, which includes directions for over 20 different pranks, Slappy trivia, a history of pranking, jokes and an introduction by Stine himself.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Beyond jokes, Pitt plays a military veteran in the movie, which is out on September 25.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of jokes

Noun

Her giggles kept interrupting the tune through much of her performance, and soon Pioneer Hall was laughing with her and cheering her through it.

— Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 18 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, donning night-vision giggles, Knoxville gleefully attacks them with trash can lids and tasers.

— Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of giggles

Noun

But though a large language model telling you to put glue on pizza might mean nothing more than a few laughs—not all uses of AI are so low stakes.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 19 Sep. 2026
Additionally, Richard Kind as the mayor’s put-upon press secretary also generates laughs.

— Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of laughs

Noun

As executed, the 2019 show is an emotional yet refreshingly unsentimental black comedy that snickers in the face of empowerment buzzwords like, well, healing journey.

— Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
There were snickers from some of the other students, including a tall and lank-haired kid whose name Adele didn’t know.

— Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of snickers

Noun

Cox admits that leaning into horror gags proved to be a challenge, given the franchise’s family-friendly nature.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Whips and gags were the order of the day; those moments would be intercut with live footage shot in Hollywood’s Cathouse.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of gags

Noun

Eric Cartman The terrifically foul-mouthed, plus-sized adolescent made his debut in the pilot episode of South Park, which follows the japes and scrapes of Cartman and his pals Kyle, Stan, and Kenny in the titular Colorado enclave.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
That is when the japes really started, most prominently on a mid-season bonding trip to Barcelona when four players ‘borrowed’ a taxi after a late-night trip to McDonald’s.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025

Definition of japes

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