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showboat
verb
to show off; to pay attention to the performance aspects of a task US, 1951
From the C19 river steamers with theatrical performances and melodramatic, showy gamblers.- The dude was hurt bad in the eleventh [round], but he showboated his way out like ’tweren’t nothin’[.] — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 135, 1975
- It was that showboat lawyer you worked for. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 213, 1987
- Most critics [of Jimi Hendrix] concentrated on the flamboyant showboating, the playing behind his head, the picking with his tongue and teeth[.] — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 99, 2001
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