1921 ‘Con.’ in Variety 8 Apr. 7/5 Tomato..socked Pepper on the button with a boff that you could hear all over the buildin.

1944 D. Runyon in Collier's 15 Jan. 53/2 I quietly gave Girondel a boff over his pimple with a blackjack.

1991 HP Professional June 12/3 So what effect have all these biffs, boffs and product moves had on Sun?

2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Metro section) 9 Spectators report that Jones in return received a boff on the chin, so maybe Plotkin got inside and nailed him with an uppercut.

1943 Variety 19 May 8/1 Only in one musical number is she [sc. Betty Grable] a boff.

1946 Time 21 Jan. 70 Such trade phrases as ‘boff’ (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, ‘preem’, as a verb meaning to stage a première.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. a10/1 (heading) Nancy Reagan film a boff. The hall waxed romantic when the film tribute to Nancy Reagan was shown.

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz viii. 62 So no more legal boff and soon, no more legal booze.

1961 J. Heller Catch-22 xxxviii. 394 I thought I might as well give the stupid broad another boff just for old time's sake.

1973 B. Hirschfeld Generation of Victors xxx. 237 Bet she's a great boff.

1977 P. Hamill Flesh & Blood xxiv. 203 Hell, I'd like to give you a boff, boy.

1994 Ottawa Citizen 2 Nov. b7/1 The series has become a rutting, panting soap opera. It might be subtitled A Boff in the Buff in Banff.

1945 Variety 18 July 34/1 Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn cleffed five new numbers, three of which are given the Frank Sinatra treatment for boff results.

1959 Guardian 14 Oct. 7/3 The ‘boff’ technique beloved of Broadway in the pre-Oklahoma days, so that principals and chorus are lined up facing the audience, arms extended, grins frozen, as the music hits a crescendo on the last line.

1981 Forbes (Nexis) 12 Oct. 20 They'll bite all the hands that feed them if it pays at the box office. If it's boff, barf matters not.

1945 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 49/2 Always trying for a boff..a laugh.

1946 Hollywood Q. 1 364/2 This has resulted in a wave of reaction throughout the industry against the type of cartoons known as ‘Rembrandts’; that is, any type of cartoon except those based on the ‘boff’ or belly laugh.

1955 S. J. Perelman Let. 15 Dec. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 182 The obligation to prepare at least sixty pages of boffs had become a nightmare.

1965 People (Austral.) 21 Jan. 21/1 A classic example of what is known in the laugh trade as ‘the boff’ (the great gust of laughter following a split second after the point of the gag is seen).

1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 May e4 But I still got a big boff out of the bumper sticker mine eyes saw the glory of on River Road.

1999 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times (Nexis) 9 Sept. b6 I don't work for giggles, I work for boffs, real belly laughs. My real criteria is that everybody must understand the joke at the same time.

1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 109/1 Boff, short for boffin.

1989 Independent 2 Nov. 36/1 The new album was recorded in LA with a predictable assortment of session boffs.

1994 Observer 13 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 8/2 All the grammar school boffs, the scholars and the pointy-heads.

1997 DJ 30 Aug. 19 The latter [game program] is a device of more serious capabilities which the pair will be using on tour and studio boffs will eagerly clutch to their bosom.

2000 Business Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 July 19 The technical boffs are poring over their charts to see if there is another 20 points of profit still to come.

1918 Stenotypists' Compan. Aug. 13 ‘It is all a big game. I am going out there to fight, and if I am not good enough or am unlucky I may get “boffed off”.’ That is the way this game of air duels goes.

1930 D. Runyon Hottest Guy in World in Liberty 8 Nov. 24/1 He never misses a chance to push Big Jule around, and sometimes boffs Big Jule over the bean with his blackjack.

1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman xi. 80 I wanted to boff hell out of the old bitch, and I just couldn't move.

1967 J. Speicher Looking for Baby Paradise iii. 41 One..might..boff you with [a] picket sign.

1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 May b13 Two grayish-green turtles are performing the rite of spring. He nuzzles her turtle neck, she boffs him away with a flipper.

1995 Daily Mail 28 Feb. 22/4 During the struggle Knights was ‘boffed’ on the head.

1937 J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale i. 6 You wouldn't even let me take time out to get boffed.

1968 G. Vidal Myra Breckinridge xxvii. 122 Why, just the thought of boffing some hairy boy makes me sick all over.

1982 Observer 31 Jan. 48/7 While Dora and Toby are boffing beneath the bell, there is a rustle in the shrubbery.

1993 Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 128/4 He never met a nurse under 40 he didn't boff.

2000 Nation 10 July 44/3 Her boyfriend..enjoys lording it over the cop as much as he likes boffing Domino.

1949 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 995/2 Boffing, masturbation.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Sept. g1 Much talk of ‘boffing’.

1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest ii. 257 Dad, when are you going to get your mind off boffing?

1997 D. Hansen Sole Survivor xiv. 164 Take her out and give her a darn good boffing. That'll do the trick.