One person makes a boastful statement, and then another does the same in an effort to outdo the first.
The "Brag-race" is now on.
Whoever runs out of brags first, looses.
I was at the bar last night.
Stan started talking about this hot blond he nailed the other night, and then Mortimer chimed in, trying to out do him.
The Brag race ended in tears when Stan forced Mortimer to confess he was actually talking about an incident with his own cousin at a family reunion.
When someone highlights how long they have been doing something (years playing a sport, years working in a company, years living in a neighborhood, years sober, overall age, etc). This is type of brag or showing off, highlighting the speaker's status based on the amount of time they've been around
There goes Thomas tenure bragging again about how he's been sober longer than anyone else at the party!
When someone brags about how long they've been doing something - It is generally an age/time related brag ("I've been doing this since you were in diapers!") but can also be the number of times they've done it ("this is my 15th time at burning man!"), etc.
We made it about 15 minutes into the neighborhood meeting before Tom started tenure bragging about how he's lived on that street the longest!
A type of brag or status signaling behavior whereby someone highlights something that is generally shameful or embarrassing.
Can include things like failures (a failure resume), childhood hardship, poverty, illness or imperfect physical conditions, etc.
This type of brag is generally shunned or punished by audiences generally UNLESS the braggart is very high in status - in which case its often rewarded.
All those prestigious Harvard students are now making stigma brags by posting their "failure resumes" on linked-in and getting lots of likes. If they were from Boston community college then that wouldn't get them any attention at all!
When someone always names drops who they have worked for, met, know to increase their bourgyness.
Yo, Adrio is tryin to get at that chick. But he is name bragging again and tellin her he knows all kinds of celebrities.
Purposefully highlighting your sensitivity, pain, fears, or weaknesses to a public audience.
There goes another CEO using a vulnerability brag by crying on social media
To brag, highlight, or bring attention to one's close relationship with a recently deceased famous person. Can also include referencing specific stories. Often these are done (consciously or not) to increase status through reminding everyone how close one was to a famous person.
John just posted a 4 page eulogy brag about that famous singer that died who he claims to have known quite well, but who in reality he just met backstage for 1 minute 15 years ago.