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boffo

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boffo adj. (informal)
exitós, d'èxit

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Jaume Ortolà i Font added a comment -

Taquiller, referit a un espectacle, una pel- lícula, etc.

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Jaume Ortolà i Font added a comment - Taquiller, referit a un espectacle, una pel- lícula, etc.
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Max Wheeler added a comment -

"Boffo" as here ('exitos') may be AmE (new to me, anyway)

Jonas Brothers enjoy a boffo opening day

Memo To Governor Palin: Boffo Speech, But You Got The Lipstick Analogy All Wrong

Talk Show Hosts Agree Obama Speech Was Boffo Theater but Some See the Script as Unconvincing.

But these examples (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/19/tesco_online_goes_boffo/) look different:

Tesco Online goes boffo on booze:
Until yesterday our favourite boffo behaviour of the Tesco site was the time it was completely impossible to buy pizza, presumably because of some bizarre indexing error. But yesterday's feature - disappointingly, now fixed - trumped that with ease.

"boffo" here seems to mean 'mad', 'crazy'.

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Max Wheeler added a comment - "Boffo" as here ('exitos') may be AmE (new to me, anyway) Jonas Brothers enjoy a boffo opening day Memo To Governor Palin: Boffo Speech, But You Got The Lipstick Analogy All Wrong Talk Show Hosts Agree Obama Speech Was Boffo Theater but Some See the Script as Unconvincing. But these examples (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/19/tesco_online_goes_boffo/) look different: Tesco Online goes boffo on booze: Until yesterday our favourite boffo behaviour of the Tesco site was the time it was completely impossible to buy pizza, presumably because of some bizarre indexing error. But yesterday's feature - disappointingly, now fixed - trumped that with ease. "boffo" here seems to mean 'mad', 'crazy'.

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