showboat
IPA: ʃˈoʊboʊt
noun
- (US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre.
- (informal, chiefly US, by extension) A showoff.
verb
- (informal, chiefly US) To show off.
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Examples of "showboat" in Sentences
- He is very dynamic and a showboat.
- The troupe exits with the showboat band.
- It should not be used as a place to showboat.
- Finding and converting a ship into a showboat.
- It was also seen as a fitting rebuke to a showboat.
- And my picture is removed from the comment showboat.
- The plantation dock was the site of showboat performances.
- Are you trying to showboat your knowledge of archaic terms.
- At the time of his stroke, he was playing regularly at the Showboat.
- Fields is the captain of a Mississippi showboat in the late nineteenth century.