chest-beating

noun

chest-beat·ing | \ ˈches(t)-ˌbē-tiŋ

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variants: or chest beating

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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