As someone who was At The Time, let me tell you. It literally meant 'butt fuck'. There's a line in the song "Valley Girl" (from 1982) about "Mister Bu-Fu": https://genius.com/Frank-zappa-valley-girl-lyrics … But figuratively meant 'screwed up' or 'screwed over'. "Man, I totally boofed that midterm!"
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Teenagers at the time generally had a rough grasp (so to speak) of the first definition, but it was almost always used in the latter sense.
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