Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A river steamboat having a troupe of performers and a theater aboard for performances on the river.
- noun One who seeks attention by ostentatious behavior; a showoff.
- intransitive verb To show off.
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- noun US A
river steamboat having a residenttheatre . - noun by extension A
showoff . - verb To
show off .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River)
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Examples
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This is pretty common in Mexico, where written sources often take a higher tone and "showboat".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Straight line retrieves is not important except for showboat owners.
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