three-sheet

Verb

three-sheet (third-person singular simple present three-sheets, present participle three-sheeting, simple past and past participle three-sheeted)

1. To exaggerate, hype up, or show off.
   • Now I don't think a man ought to be a spendthrift in order to be a good fellow, but a ball player getting four thousand a year shouldn't three-sheet himself every time he lets go of a quarter.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post
   • The Ballet Theatre surprised everybody. This top-heavy art trust, three-sheeted as “the greatest collaboration in ballet history,” functioned prodigiously through a long three weeks' sprint.1939, Modern Music, volumes 17-18, page 187

   Synonyms:

   big up, hyperbolize, preen, swagger, cut it fat, exaggerate, overcharge, overdo, overemphasize, overstate