boffo

How To Use boffo In A Sentence

• 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
• It looked like a boffo debut for him and his attempt to go Hollywood.
• Today, there is no evidence that the gist of his boffo performance on February 5 was anything other than smoke and mirrors.
• 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.
• Both are spending big bucks on the operation and both want a boffo box office.
• 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…
• 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.
• Something like Mouse Hunt gets boffo laughs with scenes where a cupboard takes three shots to fall on Lee Evans.
• Justice League is doing boffo numbers on Cartoon Network.
• 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