boffo

She headlined a boffo political convention in August and easily bested Donald Trump earlier this month in their one, and possibly only, debate.

So her boffo performance — it is, after all, a performance — was not surprising.

That said, Biden could be boffo — or at least perform decently enough.

Come summer, I saw the trend expand with the boffo success of “Barbie,” in which Ryan Gosling’s Ken makes an entire career out of pouting on the beach.

But even Reagan needed more than a boffo one-night performance to become president.