boff
US/bɒf/
boff verb: to have sexual intercourse with (someone).
Verb (1)
boff (third-person singular simple present boffs, present participle boffing, simple past and past participle boffed)
- To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- 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.1982, Stephen King, The Raft
- Synonyms:
- copulate, copulate with
Noun (1)
boff (plural boffs)
- A big laugh.
- A line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh.
- [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?1959 July 19, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 243
- [Churchy, directing a comedy:] All right, Albert, here's your boff gag... You say, "What's that in the road a-head?"
- A great success; a hit.
Noun (2)
boff (plural boffs)
Verb (2)
boff (third-person singular simple present boffs, present participle boffing, simple past and past participle boffed)
- To hit; to strike.
- […] 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.2014, Waverly Curtis, The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice, page 135
Noun (3)
boff (plural boffs)
- A hit or smack.
- 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.1937, Damon Runyon, A Piece of Pie
Synonyms of boff
Forms of boff
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | boffs |
| present participle | boffing |
| past participle | boffed |
| past | boffed |
| alternative form | bauf |
| Noun | |
| plural | boffs |
Origin of boff
Possibly shortened from boffin.
Imitative.
Words formed from boff
Words that rhyme with boff
Questions about boff
- What does boff mean?
- Boff means to have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- What part of speech is boff?
- Boff can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce boff?
- Boff is pronounced /bɒf/ (US).
- What is the past tense of boff?
- The past tense of boff is boffed.
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