showboats

On this early Edison Phonograph recording, the group alternately showboats, teases each other and generally pokes the new technology with a stick.

Boing Boing 2009

Never mind Ed Werder or anyone else on Brett's front lawn (I get along fine with Ed, who has a thankless assignment tracking down stars and showboats.)

Brett's broken record 2010

Sure, he showboats quite a bit, but I can't think of another actor who can do barely repressed rage in as many different keys.

Lance Mannion: 2008

These no-go showboats were decked out with chrome superchargers and fuel injection but never hit the pavement as they were rolled out of trailers to the pink shag fake fur of the hot rod show floor.

Boing Boing 2008

Sure, he showboats quite a bit, but I can't think of another actor who can do barely repressed rage in as many different keys.

Rescue me from Rescue Me 2008

Says Neil Livingstone, a Washington consultant on counterterrorism: "There's no place in their ranks for showboats."

The Mind Of A Commando 2008

Unfortunately, sanctimonious showboats pretending to be Mr. Smith now use the once rare filibuster as a parliamentary gimmick to defend pork at home.

It's A Wonderful Legacy 2008

Two self-centered showboats on one team is one too many -- his and Reggie Bush's egos might collide and cause a black hole to erupt over the Superdome.

"[B]irth control ... messes with God’s will, God’s will to permanently relieve me from cat litter duty. Because God has nothing better to do." Ann Althouse 2008

I'm not talking of showboats here, but of people for whom honesty was finally not an option to be considered, but an obligation to be fulfilled.

Three Ethics Questions 2008

While most young associates toil away in the library writing briefs, Ally showboats like a character out of a John Grisham novel, telling everyone exactly what she thinks.

How Would Ally Do It? 2008