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
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chest-beating
adjective-
- To the city of Seattle, it's a moment of chest-beating civic pride.
- —Steve Kandell, Spin, September 2008
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