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Boffo N./Adj Roaring Success Theatrical Production Good Stretch

Word boffo
Definition n./adj. A roaring success, said especially of a theatrical production.
Sentence Somewhere on this good boffo stretch of coastline lay the house of this inconsolable man, a man whom many regarded as being insane.
Source Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, ch. 15

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