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- noun Plural form of
showboater .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Franks is known to dislike showboaters and phonies and rarely grants interviews.
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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
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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
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In the novel a few of the most ambitious showboaters meet untimely ends.
The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000
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"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
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