showboat
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʃoʊˌboʊt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
showboat (plural showboats)
- (US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre.
- 1951 July 20, Bosley Crowther, “THE SCREEN: A MUSICAL FAVORITE AT RADIO CITY; 'Show Boat,' Metro Remake of Hit, With Kathryn Grayson in Lead, at Music Hall 'Never Trust a Gambler,' New Feature of Palace Theatre, Has Dane Clark in Cast”, in The New York Times:
- And Agnes Moorehead henpecks with stern persistence as Parthy, the captain's loving wife. The sets, which include a full-sized showboat with belching double stacks and sternwheel, are in the best Metro tradition, which means as sumptuous as sumptuous can be.
- 1990 November 2, Peter B. Flint, “Jack Sterling, 75, Host on Radio For 18 Years in New York, Dies”, in The New York Times:
- Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.
- 2000 May 21, Dan Neil, “Victory to the Low and Slow”, in The New York Times:
- Lowriding emerged in the 1950's in California, as Mexican-American youths -- in what may have been a reaction to the hot-rod culture dominated by whites -- transformed their cars into fantastical, ground-hugging showboats.
- (informal, chiefly US, by extension) A showoff.
- 2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):
- Well, I was a little upset at first. I mean, obviously people are going to think I'm a showboat, and a little bit of a prick.
Translations
river steamer with theatre
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showoff — see showoff
Verb
showboat (third-person singular simple present showboats, present participle showboating, simple past and past participle showboated)
- (informal, chiefly US, transitive, intransitive) To show off.
- 1995 June 15, Scott Ostler, “SCOTT OSTLER -- Hakeem Sets Old Standard”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
- Out: Trash talk, dirty play, crybabying, showboating and players who can't be bothered to show up for games or keep their shoes on.
- 2019 July 4, Christopher Clarey, “Rafael Nadal Doesn’t Fall for Nick Kyrgios’s Bag of Tricks”, in The New York Times:
- Their duel had something often lacking in this memorable era of men’s tennis: an edge, as Kyrgios showboated and intentionally smacked balls at Nadal’s body, ignoring the glares that Nadal sometimes fired back.
Synonyms
- grandstand (verb)