(also showboater): even your most hardassed right wingers had some showboat in them/ Jesse is a showboater, privately (1953+)
verbfloating theatre that tied up at towns along the waterways of the southern and midwestern United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, to bring culture and entertainment to the inhabitants of river frontiers. The earliest of these entertainment boats were family-owned ventures into regions where theatres had not gone.