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Posted on 10/03/2018 4:50:43 PM PDT by kanawa
To “book it” used to mean to leave some place in hurry. :-)
Oh yeah!!!
Short for "butt-f*****".
I'm from Ohio myself, but NEVER heard the word "boof".
In any context.
It probably does mean fart in Kavanaugh's case.
It certainly isn't a common term.
Maybe some made up word that only he and his friends knew the meaning of.
You’re welcome, nerdgirl :) Are you a gamer?
The only use of “boof” I ever heard at the time, and I’m roughly a contemporary of Kavanaugh, was a mocking reference to “big hair.” Slang for “bouffant.” It varied by region though, I was very amused to learn that the same thing was called a “Schaumburg” in northern Illinois.
There was also a similar slang term but with sexual connotation in use at that time in my exposure, not “boof” but “bufu,” with derivation being fairly obvious I should think. Not going to spell it out for anybody if there’s question though, lol.
The assumption that a certain slang usage is going to mean the same thing, across all groups and all regions, at all times decades into the past is an erroneous one, though.
Teens delight in creating their own code language, always have, always will. This means the code has to change, otherwise stupid adults will get it. Can’t have that. The more popular of these code words spread and thus become slang.
Boof Bonser pitched for the Twins a few years ago, if that will help.
If the topic was some Unix or internet specification the usenet posts might be informative. In this case Mr. Granger might as well be citing 4chan boards.
In the 50s and 60s if you boofed someone you were hitting someone usually on the side of their head.
Nellie was his name.
You should not feel left out. That slang term was probably not in use when you were in high school. It was the kind of thing Howard Stern would say on his radio show, and probably came into widespread usage in that era.
nope but I do build apps :)
Black kids in great lakes area would say, "I be fittin tuh book!" or "I fittin tuh book" meant to leave fast. Comes from booking a flight. "Fittin tuh" became a smoother version of "fixing tuh" (getting ready). Fixin sounded too wyatt. (white)
They also said when asked where someone went, "He left on out." or "He done left on out." Not sure if these mean the same thing, but I think the 'done' version meant he's been gone for a longer time.
"Mofo" of course, is what they called me when they were not happy with me.
I think the losers confused it with boff.
high school era for me 1974-1978. I was raised by strict German Catholic grandparents. You didn’t even cuss or else soap in your mouth.
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