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Key: DACCO-3473
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Linda Oxnard
Reporter: Jaume Ortolà i Font
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boffo

Created: 28/Oct/08 10:43 AM   Updated: 01/Nov/08 07:47 AM
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boffo adj. (informal)
exitós, d'èxit



Jaume Ortolà i Font added a comment - 28/Oct/08 10:49 AM

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


Max Wheeler added a comment - 01/Nov/08 07:47 AM

"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'.