Word: boff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra and principals of Kiss Me, Kate worked on an album of the score. (One of his favorite performers is Ethel Merman, who has played in some of his biggest hits, Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, Something for the Boys, because, as she puts it, "I can boff out those lines the way he wants them.") New singers know better than to risk trying out for Porter by singing his songs. He insists on at least 28 musicians in his show orchestras (the union minimum for Kate...
...boss. For the first time in 60 fights, he was doing his own managing, signing papers, paying bills. At 32, Joe Louis was a bit past his fighting prime but he had his strategy figured out: "If I boff him, Billy loses his head. When he loses his head, I got him." The fight odds were 13-to-5 in Louis' favor and never wavered when a millionaire Texas oilman bet $300,000 on Challenger Conn. The gamblers had seen Billy, the dancing master, outbox Joe for twelve rounds back in 1941, then fall from one murderous punch...
...headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...