show off
— Phrasal Verb with show /ʃəʊ/ verb (past tense showed, past participle shown)Definition
› to try to make people admire your abilities or achievements in a way which other people find annoying: He was the kind of kid who was always showing off to his classmates.
(Definition of show off from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “show off”
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
