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vb. (present participle of show off English)
Usage examples of "showing off".
But if I were the Andies, I'd probably be even more leery of showing off my CLACs than of letting out the fact that I had pod-battlecruisers.
Evidently, she thought, trying to control her ragged breathing, Oppuk wasn't showing off his ability to tolerate sun today for the locals as he had been yesterday at the reception.
Add to this the pleasure of riding in the city cavalcades and processions, and showing off among the half-scarlet, half-tawny robes of the city officers his fine military armour, which you may still admire sculptured on his tomb in the abbey of Valmont in Normandy, and his morion which had received many a dint, at Montlhé.
If you are showing off to someone you want to impress, you are trying to impress the universe.
And they couldn't make out what she said, and thought she was just showing off.