boof

Meanings

Noun

• A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.

Verb

• To make a jump like this when whitewater kayaking.
• To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner .
• To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
• To consume (drugs) rectally.
• To make this sound.
• To get something wrong or make a mistake.
• To puff out in a voluminous way.

Interjection

• The sound of a blow or collision; wham.

Origin

• Generally attributed to whitewater kayaking aficionados in the eastern United States in the mid- to late 1970s. The term derives from the onomatopoeic sound that a kayak makes when it lands on the water after “ski jumping” the waterfall forming the backwash.
• Imitative.
• Spelling variant of bouffe