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boasts

noun

Meaning

  1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
  2. Something that one brags about.
  3. A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
  4. To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  5. To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  6. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  7. To play a boast shot.
  8. To possess something special.
  9. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  10. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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