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- noun Plural form of
showoff .
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Examples
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Not a year goes by when we don't hear nightmarish spring break stories: testosterone driven showoffs taking headers off of balconies, tipsy girls getting raped or abducted, coeds behaving badly on film.
Blake Fleetwood: It Doesn't Have to Be All Sex and Drinking This Spring Blake Fleetwood 2011
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Not a year goes by when we don't hear nightmarish spring break stories: testosterone driven showoffs taking headers off of balconies, tipsy girls getting raped or abducted, coeds behaving badly on film.
Blake Fleetwood: It Doesn't Have to Be All Sex and Drinking This Spring Blake Fleetwood 2011
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Macho wannabes and showoffs with no respect for others are perfect candidates for recruitment for the fascists.
Rolling Thunder, War and Memorial Day « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The showoffs were there- Dungeon Master Matt Strick and that nosepicker Greg Kuhn arrived in a corporate Maybach like a black lacquered speedboat dropping off a metric shit-ton of nose Splenda at a mob boss's shore house, pampered faces smoother than the rest.
Ramona at the Funeral Thomas Pluck 2011
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Nobody likes showoffs or people who put things into "perspective."
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Latest evidence that hackers are showoffs at heart: a Romanian coder, known as unu, has revived hacking for bragging rights as a headline grabber.
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Latest evidence that hackers are showoffs at heart: a Romanian coder, known as unu, has revived hacking for bragging rights as a headline grabber.
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Sometimes these showoffs turn into face-offs as is now the case with the New York offices of CBRE Group Inc. and Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Mabel was fetching while Emily was plain as a mouse, but that didn't stop either of them from being operatic and great showoffs.
Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds" 2010
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It wouldn't surprise me if there isn't any such thing, that it's just some made-up idea for showoffs to brag about.
Obama's Big Picture: Are You Missing That Old-Time Strategery? 2010
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