boast

IPA: bˈoʊst

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
Something that one brags about.
(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
(transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
(squash) To play a boast shot.
(ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

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