Definition of BRAG

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Verb

boast, brag, vaunt, crow mean to express pride in oneself or one's accomplishments. boast often suggests ostentation and exaggeration boasts of every trivial success , but it may imply a claiming with proper and justifiable pride. the town boasts one of the best museums in the area brag suggests crudity and artlessness in glorifying oneself. bragging of their exploits vaunt usually connotes more pomp and bombast than boast and less crudity or naïveté than brag. vaunted his country's military might crow usually implies exultant boasting or bragging. crowed after winning the championship

Examples of brag in a Sentence

Noun

for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns

Verb

After winning the race, she couldn't stop bragging. “I don't mean to brag,” he said, “but I'm an excellent cook.” He bragged that his daughter was the best student in her class. “I'm the fastest runner on the team,” she bragged.

Adjective

he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

This morning, Nintendo sent out one of its periodic brag-heavy business press releases, this time focusing on a strong start to the US holiday shopping season. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Putting Nintendo Switch’s 8.2 million US Switch sales in context," 28 Nov. 2018 Maybe tweet a brag about the savings on your energy bills after a month of shorter showers and lukewarm laundry. — The Seattle Times, "Little changes can make a big difference in climate change," 24 Sep. 2018 The idyllic set up of their luxury camping spot gave fans a sneak peek into their private vacation, along with the perfect humble brag hashtag of #Magical. — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, "Nick Jonas Took Priyanka Chopra on His Favorite Getaway for a "Magical" Trip to the Mountains," 3 Sep. 2018 Welcome to the club And the Oscar for best humble brag goes to … the new class of academy members. — Christina Schoellkopf, latimes.com, "Hashtag Highlights: DiCaprio's tease, Drake's surprise," 29 June 2018 Now, poachers covet the meat, which is illegally and surreptitiously chopped, fried, and plated at private restaurants, primarily for tourists seeking a brag-worthy culinary exploit. — Shanna Baker, Smithsonian, "The Quest to Preserve the Last of Castro’s Crocodiles," 21 June 2018 And who doesn't want an opportunity to brow-brag, right? — Sable Yong, Allure, "I Tried Maybelline New York's Tattoo Studio Brow Pen and It's Like Training Wheels for Microblading," 20 June 2018 While ostensibly no book reviewers have taken to social media to galley-brag, Marlon is apparently very excited to read the book. — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, "Mother and Daughter Going on Tour for Children’s Book," 1 Mar. 2018 Onfroy has a history of violence, memorialized both in court records and his own brags. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Unsettling Familiarity of XXXTentacion," 26 Mar. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

In this world politicians are desperate to expand the tax base and brag about creating jobs. — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, "Welcome to New York, Amazon—Now Go Home," 21 Feb. 2019 However, Trump spent much of his first public statement mocking Republicans who lost, personally attacking reporters (including Acosta), and bragging about Republican gains in the Senate. — Aaron Rupar, Vox, "White House press secretary uses fake Infowars video to justify banning CNN reporter," 8 Nov. 2018 After tweeting while watching Fox News, and eating cheeseburgers while watching Fox News, bragging about how high the stock market has risen (while watching Fox News) might be our president’s favorite pastime. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "The Canadians Think Trump Will Try to Kill NAFTA. Are They Right?," 11 Jan. 2018 In addition, the US had a bioweapons program from 1943 to 1969 that, among other things, made propaganda videos bragging about testing biological weapons on human subjects. — R. Daniel Bressler, Vox, "“Designer bugs”: how the next pandemic might come from a lab," 6 Dec. 2018 Project Veritas catching employees within Government Accountability Office bragging about breaking the rules, resistance, sabotage within the Trump campaign, in all aspects of government. — Fox News, "President Trump talks Kavanaugh controversy, Russia probe," 20 Sep. 2018 Decades later, the blouse appeared again in the news when First Lady of the United States Melania Trump wore a pink Gucci top in the style shortly after her husband was caught on tape bragging about groping women. — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, "Meghan Markle Wore a Pussy Bow for Her Arrival in Windsor Ahead of the Royal Wedding," 17 May 2018 But Bradford already has mastered the art of bragging about our spring weather. — Kent Somers, azcentral, "Arizona Cardinals limiting Sam Bradford now in hopes of a healthier full season," 19 Apr. 2018 But the city specifically courts companies to come to Memphis by bragging about how low the wages are in the area. — Michael Harriot, The Root, "America Did This: An Open Letter to Memphis, Tenn.," 4 Apr. 2018

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