Usually means: Extravagantly showing off; often unnecessary.
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  1. showboating: Merriam-Webster
  2. Showboating, showboating: Wordnik
  3. showboating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. showboating: Wiktionary
  5. showboating: Dictionary.com
  6. Showboating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. showboating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. showboating: Encyclopedia

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  1. showboating: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See showboat as well.)

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▸ noun:  (US) A river steamboat having a resident theatre.
▸ noun:  (informal, chiefly US, by extension) A showoff.
▸ verb:  (informal, chiefly US, ambitransitive) To show off.
▸ Also see showboat


Opposite:
humility, modesty, unassumingness

Types:
grandstanding, flaunting, preening, parading, ostentatious, more...



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Opposite:
humility, modesty, unassumingness

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grandstanding, flaunting, preening, parading, ostentatious, more...




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