show off
verbDefinitions
To exhibit the best attributes of something.
- Grocery stores show off their produce by placing the most attractive specimens in front.
To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism
To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.
- She loves to show off her driving prowess.
- She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car.
- “Listen, my Oscar,” she said, resuming at once her tender voice, “you have a propensity to talk, and to tell all you know, and all that you don’t know; and you do it to show off, with the foolish vanity of a mere lad.[…]”
Nonstandard spelling of show-off.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA