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I would normally never tell someone this because it's generally very unimportant... But, in this case I think it's probably warranted, so that you know for the future. The word "boof" [0] has come to mean something very different in recent times.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boof#Verb_2

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Is this sort of slang not similar to 'fucked up' or 'screwed the pooch'?

Slang as in the definitions given in the link I provided? No, that slang and the common usage of the word you see associated with it today online and in younger generations is not at all similar to 'fucked up' or 'screwed the pooch.'

Where by “younger generations” you mean “people younger than 60” (source: Supreme Court Justice Boofing Bart O'Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook)

Im thinking more of how the citations on the Wiktionary link start referencing _this_ usage of the word as happening around the turn of the century, but, sure. Though, I had no idea that (_this_ usage of the word or the apparent reference from his yearbook) was a thing, either, and I'm a Xenial.

edit/ Read an article about the yearbook. I don't know how I missed that when all of that was going down. Thanks for pointing that out!

Indeed it is not, as the definition given for the word is not even it's colloquial usage anymore, although the new usage is related:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Boof&amp=t...

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