| 单词 |
showboater |
| 释义 |
ˈshowboater U.S.
[f. prec. + -er1.]
An actor on or manager of a showboat. Also fig., one who performs (in other contexts) in the theatrical style characteristic of a showboat player.
1951P. Graham Showboats ii. 15 Green River..was in later years to become showboaters' paradise. 1952Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 239/4 The show that Mr. Chapman, the first ‘showboater’, presented to the Mississippi Valley. 1968‘G. Bagby’ Another Day iii. 45 ‘What was wrong with him?’ ‘He was a clown. He was a showboater. He had a big mouth.’ 1969Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Oct. 14/1 Some of the best umpires in baseball today are almost unknown to the fans... They're not the showboaters. 1977Time Jan. 56/2 Streisand is a showboater, a sort of one-woman Hippodrome whose roots are in the brassiest tradition of the American musical theatre.
Also ˈshowboating.
1951P. Graham Showboats vii. 66 The years 1884–1889 were important..to the growing institution of showboating. 1972D. Ramsay Little Murder Music 71 Maybe there's some other reason behind the recent tendency towards showboating. The fact is, there have been a lot of gimmicks lately. 1975W. Safire Before Fall vi. 384 The proposal was what Nixon would call..‘showboating’, presented primarily for its political impact in the States..with little chance of its acceptance by the North Vietnamese. |
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