1. chest-beating - Noun
2. chest-beating - Adjective
chest-beating (uncountable)
Boastful belligerence.
Synonym: chest-thumping
chest-beating (not comparable)
Boastfully belligerent.
A cycle has come to an end and Catalonia’s progress demands political action that goes beyond symbolic chest-beating. Source: Internet
Meet The Minerva Project, the chest-beating, Silicon Valley-spawned, Larry Summers-backed “E-lite” college that might very well reshape the world market for education. Source: Internet
Now it turns out that the recent big-monkey chest-beating aimed at Syria -- threats of sanctions, surgical strikes, and regime change -- was also carefully planned, by many of the same people, long before the Bush Regime seized power. Source: Internet