Crossword clues for boffo
boffo
- Swell at the box office
- Superb, on Broadway
- Super, performancewise
- Super, in retro reviews
- Super, at the box office
- Successful, in modern reviews
- Smashing, at the box office
- Show-biz-type headline
- Show-biz word
- Show-biz superlative
- Show biz-type headline
- Sensational, slangily
- Like a dynamite performance, in showbiz lingo
- Hugely successful, in Variety
- Huge, at the box office
- Great, in Variety headlines
- Great, in retro reviews
- Fab, in show biz
- Dynamite, in showbiz
- Doing big business, slangily
- Big at the box office
- Awesome, in show biz
- "Variety" superlative
- Like some B'way performances
- Big hit, in Variety slang
- Like some shows
- Successful, in Variety slang
- Fabulous, to a theater critic
- Like a showstopper
- Super, in showbiz lingo
- Terrific, on Broadway
- Very good, in slang
- Highly successful, in Varietyese
- Smashing, in slanguage
- Hit show: Slang
- Smashing, in show biz
- Sensational, in showbiz
- Great, in "Variety" headlines
- Extremely successful, in theater lingo
- Big, in Variety
- Show biz headline word
- Highly successful, in theaterspeak
- Wow-inducing, in old theater slang
- Worth a rave review, in show biz
- Wildly successful, in showbiz slang
- Variety headline
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boff \boff\, boffo \bof"fo\n.
(Theater) a hearty laugh.
(Theater) a joke or gag line that produces hearty laughter.
(Theater) something very successful, especially a box-office hit.
boffo \bof"fo\ a. highly successful; superbly well done. [slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strikingly successful, by 1961, show biz slang, probably echoic of a "hit."
Wiktionary
a. (context informal English) Very good or successful n. (context chiefly in the world of entertainment English) A great success; a hit
Wikipedia
Boffo is an informal term meaning "very good". In show business, boffo can mean a hit show, as in "boffo box office". This use of the term is believed to have originated with the Hollywood trade magazine Variety.
"Boffo" may also refer to:
People:- Franz Boffo, a 19th-century Sardinian architect responsible for many buildings in southern Russia and Ukraine
- Dino Boffo, an Italian journalist
- Adolfo Bautista, a Mexican midfielder nicknamed "Bofo"
- Mister Boffo, a comic strip created by Joe Martin
- Phineas Boffo, a character in the TV series Carnivàle
- Boffo, a psychological trick employed by the witch Eumenides Treason in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
- Wizardry 8 has a mock "boffo" ending, which results in the destruction of the planet the players are currently on.
- Mondo Boffo, an early 80s US New Wave band
- Boffo Games, a now-defunct video games developer founded by Steve Meretzky
Usage examples of "boffo".
Tiffany went and got some blankets, bundling them up so that when she carried them back to the grave, no one would notice that the two Boffo skulls and the spiderweb-making machine were tucked inside.
Once, Tiffany noticed the Boffo catalogue open on the table with some things circled.
The act was not boffo, but the new girl singer was even worse than Dolly, so she got a reprieve.
C to be her Santa Claus with two boffoes in advance so he can get across Lake Worth to an address she gives him without walking, provided he will proceed there at once, and Fatso accepts these terms and dismisses the small stove lids from his shade with a nickel apiece and the chances are they figure he is Santa Claus already.
The client photos were boffo-- Hughes shared a wall with some South American dictators and bongo player Preston Epps.