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

  • Straight line retrieves is not important except for showboat owners.
  • This is pretty common in Mexico, where written sources often take a higher tone and "showboat".
  • Today at the "showboat" job summit which is nothing but a pile of crap, one of the ideas was extending unemployment for the people that fall off the rolls in January.
  • But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear.

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