How To Use Boffo In A Sentence
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Blighty -- Britain; "'Bean' is one of the biggest hits to come out of Blighty." blurb -- TV commercial; "Ridley Scott started his career directing blurbs." boff (also boffo, boffola) -- outstanding (usually refers to box office performance); "'My Best Friend's Wedding' has been boffo at the B.O.
Variety.com
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A boffo deal could unwind this relationship and give satisfaction to all concerned.
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Mr Feltri, who is leading an aggressive "counteroffensive" to "unmask" critics of scandals in Mr Berlusconi's private life, had unearthed a 2004 incident in which Mr Boffo paid a fine for alleged telephone harassment of the wife of an unnamed man whom Il Giornale claimed had been his gay lover, adding that he was a homosexual "known to the police for this kind of activity".
Vatican succumbs to attack by Italian Government
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It's not as outlandish or as hilarious as many of tales of his boffo corruption.
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The film has won oodles of awards and done boffo box office in South Korea.
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[T] he films in this year's Oscar race seem to suggest the world is more globally unified and polyglot than ever before," writes Anthony's also got a followup entry at his blog: "[W] hat I neglected to mention in the story is that most of the films have not exactly done 'boffo' business.
GreenCine Daily
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Because of the Vaughn boffo, they were passed on pursuing Vladimir Guerrero, the Montreal slugger who had back problems.
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If you've ever wondered why - when their line's fed several box office boffos (Spider-Man, X-Men, Blades I and II) in the past few years - Marvel Comics can remain in shaky financial straits, Deppey's ‘address’ gives a clue.
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The conventions work; they were boffo in sixteenth-century Italy, and they're boffo today.
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Here's hoping the subtlety won't be lost in the upcoming avalanche of boffo Christmas fare.
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There are so many great things about this movie, from its stunning set and costume design to its sprawling shots of a computer-generated, retro-fitted Paris, to the boffo casting of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
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Castle benefited from Dancing's boffo lead-in in prime time's final hour, dominating with some 12.7 million people, while the start of Larisa Oleynik's story arc on CBS' Hawaii Five-0 had 9.8 million viewers and Harry's Law — which has been NBC's top-rated show and rose to No. 17 in the latest weekly rankings — reeled in 8.2 million.
Ratings: Dancing with the Stars Steps Back with Smaller Audience
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Despite boffo record sales and ubiquitous radio play in Montreal, they aren't selling out their anticipated Forum concert.
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Obviously, with the boffo business the film is doing and the many positive reactions we are hearing to it from Catholics and non-Catholics alike, the film's appeal is not limited to this ‘reactionary clique.’
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Aside from being great fun, what is the lesson from Boffa's boffo biological buffoonery?
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There will be stars, contract players, boffo traffic numbers.
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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: If a critic was writing a review of the Microsoft earnings report, "boffo" would be the word that comes to mind -- boffo.
CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2004
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Now that the frenzied e-holiday shopping season has come and gone, e-tailers and their bricks-and-mortar rivals face the giddy task of tallying the receipts from what was widely forecast to be a boffo year for consumer spending.
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Let's hope he's right, and that the mano-a-mano matches produce a boffo finish.
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But problems in the ITV sector come at a time when several industry pundits are predicting boffo growth.
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As insipid and inept as The Rescuers is, the film inexplicably turned out to be a box office bonanza for Disney, scoring boffo business both domestically and in Europe.
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Neither a boffo smash, nor a miserable dud or pandering tear-jerker, although one could be spotted sitting behind the president.
Will Durst: Boffo Smash or Miserable Flop?
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This may not sound like boffo material, but genetic-engineering-policy specialist Michael Rodemeyer knows his crowd.
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Believe me, I am always on the prowl for the suckadelic, be it box office boffo or direct-to-cable.
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The off-year election on November 4 delivered another blast of good news to a White House already buoyed by boffo economic numbers.
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And in case you missed it on Wednesday, the California 4th district debate between Representative John Doolittle (R) and challenger Charlie Brown (D) had two of the most boffo socko performances the Roundup has witnessed in a long time, a mighty long time.
Midterm Roundup
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The film was shot in 1947 over ten trouble-free weeks, and it opened to rave reviews and boffo box office, billed as ‘The Happiest Musical Ever Made.’
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He's not above going for the boffo laugh, but the punch of the jokes comes at you encased in a velvet glove.
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Today, there is no evidence that the gist of his boffo performance on February 5 was anything other than smoke and mirrors.
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The five-part series of online workshops, at www. pwc. tv, will cover topics like: how to craft a boffo "elevator pitch" and how to articulate your long-term career goals to interviewers.
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Both are spending big bucks on the operation and both want a boffo box office.
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But his proviso is that Justice League, about four superheroes including Wonder Woman, would have to do really, really boffo to justify having a female as the main star of a spin-off pic.
WB TO MAKE WONDER WOMAN MOVIE, IF…
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Anthony's also got a followup entry at his blog: "[W] hat I neglected to mention in the story is that most of the films have not exactly done 'boffo' business.
GreenCine Daily: Oscar countdown.
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Something like Mouse Hunt gets boffo laughs with scenes where a cupboard takes three shots to fall on Lee Evans.
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Justice League is doing boffo numbers on Cartoon Network.
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But also according to the source Paramount doesn't think Franco is the kind of boffo box office they want, so the producer and the studio are clashing over the casting.
Undefined
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Anyway, I wasn't terribly sold on the alleged political riskiness of this movie but it did do boffo business in France and here, due in large part to the controversy stirred up by its foes..
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Felix Farmer has established himself as Hollywood's golden boy - a producer who can turn any half-wit project or two-bit script into box office boffo.
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Actually there is a degree of ammbiguity about the term "boffo" or at least about the root "boff".
I'm in My "What a Median Means" Mode - The Austrian Economists
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The name bgas-fcola is undoubtedly the etymon of the French bouffole and Italian boffola, which Furetiere derives from buxula,
Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
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It looked like a boffo debut for him and his attempt to go Hollywood.
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KING: Also what if you go "boffo" when you meet her?
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Sam Donaldson Talks Politics and Peace from the Middle East; Tom Arnold Discusses His Search for a Wife on the Internet - March 24, 2000
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Anything to do with Krusty the Klown's gotta be, in his words: "boffo"!
Linkorama
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For all the latest numbers from Up's "boffo" box office run, domestically and internationally, go to Box Office Mojo.
Archive 2009-06-01
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for years he was a boffo box office certainty
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Without expectations of the big dramatic event or the boffo laugh, the rhythm of the voice makes manifest a yearning that might be spiritual or romantic.
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The difference between sitting in an audience and watching the show and being transported to another world, or taking the risk, having the fun, collaborating with other people to put the show and immerse yourself in that world, is "wow," "socko," "boffo.
Freddie Gershon: Happy National Arts and Education Week, America
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More importantly, will his latest cinematic experiment have a boffo box office weekend?
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The guy who gave that "boffo" speech that so impressed her according to SourceWatch.
Crooks and Liars
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We're trying to make this boffo science-fiction film and we want to use your sub as a prop.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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Is it just me, or has West Wing gone from boffo to stinko?
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Most jazz, these days, is released on small labels, few of which are generating any kind of boffo profits.
PopMatters
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Unfortunately I did not know that to have a boffo laugh is not that important, believe it or not.