Usually means: Expresses pride or possession proudly.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. boasts: Merriam-Webster
  2. boasts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. boasts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Boasts, boasts: Wordnik
  5. boasts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. boasts: Wiktionary
  7. boasts: Dictionary.com
  8. boasts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. boasts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boasts: Legal dictionary

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  1. boasts: Encyclopedia

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  1. boasts: Idioms

(Note: See boast as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (boast)

noun:  A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
noun:  Something that one brags about.
noun:  (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
verb:  (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
verb:  (transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
verb:  (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
verb:  (squash) To play a boast shot.
verb:  (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
verb:  (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
verb:  (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
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