B.O.F., b.o.f.

n

British

a 'boring old fart'. An expression of deri-sion institutionalised by rock-music jour-nalists in the mid- and late 1970s, usually applied by devotees of punk music to musicians of the hippy era who were entering middle age.

► 'Taking all my B. O. F. records and paper-backs down to [the] jumble sale...' (Sincerely yours, Biff, Chris Garratt and Mick Kidd, 1986)