To remove someone from contention "biff them out" or "biff someone out" was a slang term. Originally coined in the Midwestern U.S., in the 1960's common usage, the phrase was used to describe removing someone from contention, preventing them from succeeding, as in "they were biffed out" or eliminated from competition. In sports, it could mean being wiped out of competition, or to fail.
Biff them out. 1. They were biffed out of any chance at success when their past criminal history was exposed. 2. She was biffed out of any chance of winning.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)