ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Boff

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /bɒf/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Boff is a verb meaning (entertainment, slang) A big laugh.

Meaning

(entertainment, slang) A big laugh.

More Meanings

  1. (entertainment, slang) A line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh.
  2. (entertainment, slang) A great success; a hit.
  3. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
  4. (slang, derogatory) A pupil who works hard; a swot.
  5. (slang, transitive) To hit; to strike.
  6. (slang) A hit or smack.

Example Sentences

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 were boffing each other's brains out, yet neither would he be surprised.
[…] 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 and boffed him upside the head.
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 a boff on the beezer.
[Churchy, directing a comedy:] All right, Albert, here's your boff 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?

Word Forms

Synonyms for boff

Depending on context, synonyms include copulate, boffo, clicko.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boof, ball, boink, bonk, knock off, bang.

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