Usually means: Displaying skills ostentatiously to impress.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word showboat:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. showboat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. showboat: Merriam-Webster
  3. showboat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. showboat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. showboat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. showboat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Showboat, showboat: Wordnik
  8. showboat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. showboat: Wiktionary
  10. showboat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. showboat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. showboat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. showboat: Dictionary.com
  14. showboat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Showboat (Kenny Dorham album), Showboat (disambiguation), Showboat (musical), Showboat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. showboat: Rhymezone
  17. showboat: FreeDictionary.org
  18. showboat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. showboat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. showboat: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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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.

Similar:
houseboat, boat-in theatre, liveaboard, boat-in theater, stateroom, boathouse, boat truck, boilerhouse, water bus, Texas, more...

Opposite:
humble, modest, unassuming

Types:
exhibitionist, diva, dramqueen, primdonna, more...

Phrases:
Showboat Atlantic City, more...

Adjectives:
musical, first, old, last, real, little, second, famous, american

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     turquoise,     sapphire,     emerald, more...


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Similar:
houseboat, boat-in theatre, liveaboard, boat-in theater, stateroom, boathouse, boat truck, boilerhouse, water bus, Texas, more...

Opposite:
humble, modest, unassuming

Types:
exhibitionist, diva, dramqueen, primdonna, more...

Phrases:
Showboat Atlantic City, more...

Adjectives:
musical, first, old, last, real, little, second, famous, american

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     turquoise,     sapphire,     emerald, more...



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