boff

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /bɒf/
  • Rhymes: -ɒf

Alternative forms

Verb

boff (third-person singular simple present boffs, present participle boffing, simple past and past participle boffed)

  1. (slang) to have sexual intercourse (with someone)
Synonyms

Noun

boff (plural boffs)

  1. a big laugh
  2. a line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh

Etymology 2

Shortened from boffin?

Noun

boff (plural boffs)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A pupil who works hard; a swot.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Verb

boff (third-person singular simple present boffs, present participle boffing, simple past and past participle boffed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To hit; to strike.
    • 2014, Waverly Curtis, The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice, page 135:
      [] 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.

Derived terms

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