[ adj ] resoundingly successful and popular <adj.all> for years he was a boffo box office certainty
boff \boff\, boffo \bof"fo\n. 1. (Theater) a hearty laugh. [PJC]
2. (Theater) a joke or gag line that produces hearty laughter. [PJC]
3. (Theater) something very successful, especially a box-office hit. [PJC]
boffo \bof"fo\ a. highly successful; superbly well done. [slang] [PJC]
After a lean 1988, Mr. Lloyd Webber's company in recent months has enjoyed boffo box-office.
I was saved from making any half-baked sociological pronouncements by a friend who reminded me of last year's "Clean and Sober," a remarkable picture about drug addiction with a boffo performance from Michael ("Batman") Keaton.
Not only was Mr. Acin able to return to Yugoslavia to shoot this lovely movie, he also saw it turn into a boffo hit from Zagreb to Sarajevo.