Usually means: Express pride or self-satisfaction loudly.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word boast:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. boast: Merriam-Webster
  2. boast, boast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boast, boast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boast, boast: Wordnik
  7. boast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boast: Wiktionary
  9. boast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Boast, boast: Dictionary.com
  13. boast: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Boast (Collective Soul song), Boast (disambiguation), Boast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boast: Rhymezone
  19. boast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Boast: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. boast: FreeDictionary.org
  23. boast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. boast: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. boast: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boast: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boast: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOAST: Acronym Finder
  2. boast: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. boast: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Boast: Sports Definitions

(Note: See boasted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
noun:  Something that one brags about.
noun:  (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
verb:  (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
verb:  (transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
verb:  (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
verb:  (squash) To play a boast shot.
verb:  (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
verb:  (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
verb:  (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

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