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Someone who feels the need to brag about their accomplishments by using obscure ways to talk about it.
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Someone who will talk about other people's failures and use their mediocre successes to talk about themselves.
Jose: I'm looking forward to you finally attempting a half ironman. I did one because I'm an amazing athlete, but you can to if you train hard
Jason: we failed together remember?
Jose: but I found an easier course, passed now I'm an ironman, I'm really amazing and you will be one day too if you work hard.
Jason: but you did a half not a full. Stop using subliminal bragging to promote yourself.
Jose: iron sharpens iron, you will understand one day if you ever finish one
Making a very public eulogy for a famous person in order to highlight your proximity, relationship, or familiarity to them upon their death (often to get attention for yourself).
When that famous painter Jack died, all his kids friends were eulogy bragging on facebook about how influential he was to them and tagging his son so that everyone knows they knew him personally!
The art of posting photos or comments to social media, often using reverse psychology, in hopes of receiving validation for your false modesty.
Girl: Hey, check out Eric posting pics of his abs again. Oh, look he commented too..."FML, I'm too fat".
Other girl: What a douche brag!
To publicly celebrate, highlight, brag about how one (or one's group) was victimized by others.
The greater the harm to the victim, the more notable the brag. The more perpetrators who did the harm, the more notable the brag.
There's john victim bragging again about how his teachers in high school wronged him by giving him tests that were too hard!
Compound Verb.
Something politically incorrect is said or done regarding an individual which is actually a compliment. The mindset of the target is often as follows.
>Hey!
>Hey Everyone!
>Look At Me!
>I'm so attractive and desirable that some guy spent a ton of time obsessing over me
>He's so obsessed with my beauty that he spent a ton of time imagining me naked
>cuz I'm so hot
>ME
>PAY ATTENTION TO ME
The target of a wolf whistle or cat call can express outrage but the give away is the smile they'll have on their face while doing so.
The following anecdote illustrates victim bragging in process.
I was once walking home from Uni with a girl and some guy catcalled her from a passing car.
She spent the entire remainder of the day telling everyone we met how terrible and demeaning the incident was, all the while wearing a shit-eating grin on her face. That catcall was her proudest achievement that year I'd imagine.
You're just victim bragging.
That catcall had her victim bragging for the rest of the day.
The well-concealed cockiness of someone like a public prosecutor when grand jury indictments come back for a former president.
"Did you see Alvin Bragging on the TV when that orange clown came in and got fingerprinted? Man he looked whipped when he croaked out 'not guilty' ... his collar was all stained and shit, his wife was no where to be seen. He was ass-kicked for sure"
"Don't go all smug on me thinking you caught me cheating with a porn-star -- there's no Alvin Bragging going on here today."
A contractor takes Which is to big for his business to handle. Typically looses his shirt.
Johns company won a huge job and they couldn't handle it. That is why they are no longer in business. For him at first it was a brag job.