Suggestive of glamor or poshness
“Sarmiento takes us downstairs to tour the café, a swank lounge that was conceived as a high-energy meeting place for stock junkies.”
Trendy or in fashion
“The latter were altogether lovely lookers, wearing fashionable jeans ending in the requisite swank boots.”
Very, or garishly, showy or flashy
“The decor was jazzed up with the addition of booths, swank lighting, and iron grating for the individual stations.”
Slang or colloquial terms for attractiveness
Intended to impress in a showy manner
To boast about one's achievements
“She complained later that masses of people visited Monaco and Monte Carlo, but only Tippy would swank about it.”
To behave in a manner intended to impress
“Do you think he's going to give up a chance to swank around in a velvet coat onstage and show off his profile?”
To walk in an exaggerated or showy manner
“He would swank around the front porch in his nankeens, his white vest, and his white suspenders, talking politics.”
To ostentatiously draw attention to
Garish or ostentatious display or showiness
“The affair would be fairly small but filled with plenty of swank.”
The state, act or quality of having swagger or being prone to showing off
“There was a lot of Cossack swank in him. He used to heat up a nail in the stove every morning to curl his whiskers with.”
(rare) A person who boasts or brags
“I have always avoided being a swank.”
An act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction
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