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What does boast mean?

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Noun
  1. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
  2. (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  2. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  3. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  4. (squash) To play a boast shot.
  5. (ergative) To possess something special.
Verb
  1. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  2. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
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