showboat
/ˈʃəʊbəʊt
/noun
1(In the US) a river steamer on which theatrical performances are given.City officials have inspected tourist showboats in recent months after it was discovered the boats were releasing untreated waste into the ocean....
- The show tells of the fortunes, and misfortunes, of Magnolia, the daughter of the owner of the showboat and her gambler husband Gaylord Ravenal.
- With fighting, trash-talking, cursing, and endzone dances strictly prohibited, the only type of player not welcome in the USFTL is a showboat.
1.1 informal, chiefly North American A show-off; an exhibitionist: he’s neither a show-off nor a showboat...
- During his NATO days, the studious soldier struck many officers as a showboat.
- Like all good things, or at least like all bleach-streaked showboats, he can't last forever.
- But he's running the risk he'll be remembered more as a showboat than one of the better wide receivers of his time.
verb [no object] informal, chiefly North American
Show off: (as adjective showboating) a lot of showboating politicians...
- Why knock someone who at least is playing the game and not showboating?
- While he is off showboating as ‘Archbishop of New York,’ Daily is content to go by the unassuming title of Bishop of Brooklyn.
- ‘The Bull’ made it a fight with Harrison occasionally showboating after being hit.
Derivatives
showboater
- I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
- True, he has been a shameless showboater, but not half as shameless as the absurd prosecutor.
- ‘He's not a showboater, but he gets results,’ says Margaret La Montagne Spellings.
Rhymes
- meeskite
- meester
- meet
- meetable
- meet-and-greet
- meeter
- meetiner
- meetin'er
- meeting
- meetinger
- meeting-goers
- meeting ground
- meeting house
- meeting place
- meeting point
- meeting time
- meetly
- meetness
- meet one's Maker
- meet one's match
- meet someone halfway
- meet someone's eye (or eyes)
- meet the case
- meet-the-people
- meetup