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showboat definition

☆ show·boat (-bōt′)

noun

  1. a boat, esp. a steamboat, containing a theater and carrying a troupe of actors who play river towns
  2. Slang a showoff; exhibitionist

intransitive verb

Slang to show off

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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