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boff

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boff 1  (bf)
n. Slang
1. A line in a play or film, for example, that elicits a big laugh: "He doesn't go for the big boffs, artificially inflated, but lets his comedy build through a leisurely accumulation of bizarre details" Vincent Canby.
2. A big laugh.
3. A conspicuous success. Also called boffo, boffola.
[Probably from b(ox) off(ice).]
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The censuring of theologians Hans Kung, Charles Curran, and Leonardo Boff, and the excommunication in 1997 of a seventy-one-year-old Sri Lankan theologian, Tissa Balasuriya (who was restored to full communion a year later), at least temporarily damaged the close relationships that had been forged between theologians and the bishops at Vatican II.
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