- BOFFO
- Word whose OED entry cites Variety magazine
- Fab
- Successful, in "Variety"
- Highly successful, as a performance
- Like Broadway shows with constantly packed houses
- Smash on stage
- Fabulous, to a theater critic
- Doing big business
- Highly successful, in showbiz lingo
- Super, performancewise
- Doing big business, slangily
- Wildly successful, in showbiz slang
- Fab, in show biz
- Sensational, in showbiz
- Swell at the box office
- Big hit, in Variety slang
- Fab, in showbiz lingo
- Smashing, in show biz
- Big at the box office
- Dandy, as a performance
- Like a dandy performance
- Like a great performance, slangily
- Like a fab performance
- Like a fab show
- Super-successful
- Four-star, in slang
- Big, in Variety
- Huge, at the box office
- Hugely successful, in Variety
- Smashing, at the box office
- Awesome, in show biz
- Worth a rave review, in show biz
- Successful, as in "Variety"
- Extremely successful
- Super, in showbiz
- Variety superlative
- Great, in retro reviews
- Show-biz superlative
- Sensational
- Very successful
- Hit show: Slang
- Smashing, in slanguage
- Terrific
- Like some B'way performances
- Like some shows
- Like a showstopper
- Terrif
- Very good, in slang
- Highly successful, in Varietyese
- Highly successful, in theaterspeak
- Terrific, on Broadway
- Superb, on Broadway
- Sensational, slangily
- Sensational, as a play
- Show biz-type headline
- Highly successful
- Show biz headline word
- Great, in Variety headlines
- Successful, in Variety slang
- Show-biz word
- Variety headline
- Wow-inducing, in old theater slang
- Super, in showbiz lingo
- Swell
- Super, in retro reviews
- Extremely successful, in theater lingo
- Sensational, in showbiz slang
