Definition of chest–beating
: chest-thumping His nationalist chest-beating also stirred up United States hostility toward his administration. — Alan Riding, New York Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1979
chest–beating
adjective To the city of Seattle, it's a moment of chest-beating civic pride. — Steve Kandell, Spin, September 2008Explore M-W
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1937
First Known Use of chest–beating
1937
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