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   boffola

   /bɒˈfəʊlə/

   noun

   • 1. a joke or a line in a script intended to get a laugh.

   adjective

   • 1. (of a laugh) hearty and unrestrained.

   Word Origin 1940s: extension of slang boff ‘hearty laugh’.

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   What is the meaning of Boffo?

   • 1. noun A movie or play that is very popular and successful. That movie looked so stupid in the previews, but it turned out to be a real boffo. 2. adjective Wonderful or fantastic. That routine was just boffo, way to go! Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

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   What does Boff mean in slang?

   • A dazzling, often sudden instance of success: hit, sleeper. Informal: smash, smash hit, ten-strike, wow. Slang: boff, boffo. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.

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   Did a boffola quit his day job?

   • the audience could be heard chuckling throughout the play, but there were few theater-filling boffolas if that was the wannabe comic's best boffola, he'd be well-advised not to quit his day job 1946, in the meaning defined above

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   noun. bof· fo· la bä-ˈfō-lə. Synonyms of boffola. : boff. Synonyms. belly laugh. boffo. cachinnation. cackle. chortle. chuckle. giggle. guffaw. hee-haw. horselaugh. laughter. snicker. snigger. titter. twitter. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of boffola in a Sentence.

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   Synonyms for BOFFOLA: laughter, chuckle, giggle, belly laugh, laugh, snicker, smile, boffo; Antonyms of BOFFOLA: cry, sob, groan, moan, wail, mouth, face, grimace

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   boffola. noun. Slang. A dazzling, often sudden instance of success: hit, sleeper. Informal: smash, smash hit, ten-strike, wow. Slang: boff, boffo. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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   boffola. US slang a particularly funny joke.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   What does the word boffola mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word boffola. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in U.S. English. See meaning & use. How common is the word boffola? Fewer than 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.

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   boffola (plural boffolas) A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.

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   a joke or a line in a script intended to get a laugh.. Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.