Definition of "show off" [show off]

• To exhibit the best attributes of something. (verb)
• To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism. (verb)
• One who shows off. (noun)

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• "For Steve, a thirty-seven-year veteran employee of the State of Ohio, it was a tremendous honor to show off his family to government officials, including his boss in the Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, Martin Janis, and Governor James Rhodes, like Steve a lifelong Republican."
• "All wore similar black suits with white shirts, as if to better show off their peacock women, and all offered to kiss Jessicas hand."
• "The event was scheduled after nightfall because the designer wanted dark skies over the glass ceiling in the Grand Palais – all the better to show off his neon-outlined set, complete with perspex street lights and twinkling black floor."