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  • noun Plural form of showboater.

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Examples

  • But isn't the question really why people continue to vote for gangsters, showboaters, and self-centered ignoramuses?

    Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • But isn't the question really why people continue to vote for gangsters, showboaters, and self-centered ignoramuses?

    Daily Links, May 7, 2009 Michael Turton 2009

  • Some of the big, lush wines are in vogue with the modern plush styling so they are showboaters that seem to turn heads.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Such realities haven't prevented green showboaters from claiming victory after the Bush Administration designated the polar bear as a "threatened" species yesterday.

    Polar Bear Melodrama 2008

  • Some of the big, lush wines are in vogue with the modern plush styling so they are showboaters that seem to turn heads.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Franks is known to dislike showboaters and phonies and rarely grants interviews.

    Bulking Up For Baghdad 2007

  • This was back in the time when the studio wasn't purposefully filled with a thousand self-conscious showboaters lurking in the background to whoop and gurgle at the merest opportunity.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Alistair Myles 2006

  • This was back in the time when the studio wasn't purposefully filled with a thousand self-conscious showboaters lurking in the background to whoop and gurgle at the merest opportunity.

    Hollandaise sauce Alistair Myles 2006

  • In the novel a few of the most ambitious showboaters meet untimely ends.

    The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000

  • "SportsDome" is a wicked homage to ESPN's "SportsCenter," complete with blaring theme music, explosive graphics and a pair of glib, good-looking showboaters named Mark Shepard and

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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