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Showboat

Noun

Definition: 1(in the US) A river steamer on which theatrical performances are given.

Examples: “Back in the days of showboats (when people in most nooks and crannies of the nation were familiar with Shakespeare, however crudely presented) one impresario wintered his four-boat fleet here.”

“City officials have inspected tourist showboats in recent months after it was discovered the boats were releasing untreated waste into the ocean.”

2 (for a person as informal): A show-off; an exhibitionist.

for instance: “He’s neither a show-off nor a showboat.”

Published in Dawn, Young World July 22nd, 2017

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