boffs

variants or boffos
plural of boff

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boffs
Noun
  • LaKeith Stanfield is an easy standout as Parker’s best friend Grofield, a passionate actor who moonlights as a criminal to fund his dead-end theater company — some of the movie’s heartiest chuckles come from the joy Grofield takes in getting to ham things up as part of the heist.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But places that earn chuckles could be getting gasps and guffaws; moments that feel generally meditative could be devastating, if Lloyd were more interested in character work and less in mise en scène.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Green is known for speaking his mind, talking candidly, and cracking jokes at the expense of others.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Bill Oakley has been making jokes about food for more than half his life.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To her credit, Shannon shakes off the incipient paranoia and goes hard into the giggles at anything and everyone at the table.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After Khloé made her mom admit what was going on, Kris broke into giggles.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Rolling Stone has previously reported, bogus images of classic rockers in hospitals or singing at the graves of other rockers have flooded the internet — fooling some fans in the process and provoking laughs in just as many.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There will be plenty of laughs, too.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Before this fifth season put him closer to the center of the action, Roddy had undoubtedly been a misfit among misfits at Slough House, a desk jockey who would hold court at his computer, issuing snide japes at anyone within earshot.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Boffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boffs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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