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showboater

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show⋅boat

[shoh-boht]
–noun
1. a boat, esp. a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
2. Informal. show-off (def. 1).
3. a person, esp. an athlete, who performs in an ostentatiously sensational manner calculated to draw attention; show-off.
–verb (used without object)
4. to perform or behave in an outrageous or spectacular manner.
Also, showboater (for defs. 2, 3).


Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; show + boat
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