show off

1. 1.

   display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

   “he showed off his new sports car”

   Synonymsflauntflashostentateswank

   Broaderexpose

   Narrowerflexsplurge

Questions about show off

What does show off mean?

show off means "display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously".

What is another word for show off?

Close synonyms include flaunt, flash, ostentate, swank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is show off a common word?

show off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.