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showboated

showboated is the simple past and past participle of showboat.

Meaning of showboat

Verb

showboat (third-person singular simple present showboats, present participle showboating, simple past and past participle showboated)

  1. (US, ambitransitive, informal) To show off.
    • Out: Trash talk, dirty play, crybabying, showboating and players who can't be bothered to show up for games or keep their shoes on.1995 June 15, Scott Ostler, “SCOTT OSTLER -- Hakeem Sets Old Standard”, in San Francisco Chronicle

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Questions about showboated

What is showboated the simple past and past participle of?
Showboated is the simple past and past participle of showboat.

Words near showboated in the dictionary

  1. showbizzery
  2. showbizzy
  3. showboard
  4. showboards
  5. showboat
  6. showboated
  7. showboater
  8. showboaters
  9. showboating
  10. showboats
  11. showboaty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: showboated (page history and authors); showboat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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