"boffola" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1961, Al Hine, Lord love a duck, page 215",
          "text": "\"You're here to set off skyrockets for Barbara Anne, not to regale us with the steam-room boffolas of Beverly Hills.\" \"Well, I thought it was a cute story,\" Mr. Blakelee said.",
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          "ref": "1979, Newsweek (volume 94, part 2, page 70)",
          "text": "You laugh all the harder because the movie never winds up to hit you with a boffola."
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          "ref": "1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119",
          "text": "These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.",
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