showboat
Example Sentences
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It was then the home fighter's turn to showboat, poking his tongue out to his rival as Edwards landed a clean right hand.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2023
Kemp attributed Anovion’s choice of location to state and local officials, saying “they don’t posture or showboat, and they don’t try to steal credit.”
From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2023
The list of wealthy people willing to sign up for a chance to buy a showboat aircraft that would smoke all their rivals’ clunkers grew.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022
It falls to Thermal Herman 6⅞ths, the showboat of Katz’s inventory, to fashion himself into a fedora, hitch a ride on a moose’s antlers that double as a hatrack and save her.
From New York Times • May 20, 2022
He looked pretty good until he saw me watching him, then he tried to showboat.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
