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boffo
adjective
very impressive, popular, successful US, 1949
Originally theatrical when it was often used of a comedic success, and in which sense it probably derives from “buffo” (a comic actor; comic).- [A] film sale to boffo book-buyer Robert Redford. — Maclean’s (magazine), August 1976
- [S]he was going to be competing with garage sales, which got more boffo all the time. — Cyra McFadden, The Serial, p. 188, 1977
- They had tried in vain to convince one another and the brass that they had been boffo in the canyon. — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 100, 1984
- [Barry] Humphries launches into the boffo opening, a hymn to frivolity’s refusal to suffer. — John Lahr, Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation, p. 17, 1991
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