Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ornamental drapery or curtain draped in a curve between two points.
- noun An ornamental festoon of flowers or fruit.
- noun A carving or plaster molding of such an ornament.
- noun Promotional items, especially when given for free, considered as a group.
- noun Slang Stolen property; loot.
- noun Australian The pack or bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British To lurch or sway.
- intransitive verb Australian To travel about with a pack or swag.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sink down by its weight; lean; sag.
- To move as something heavy and pendent; sway.
- noun An unequal, hobbling motion.
- noun Same as
swale , 2. - noun A bundle; the package or roll containing the possessions of a swagman.
- noun A festoon. See the quotation.
- noun In decorative art, an irregular or informal cluster: as, a swag of flowers in the engraved decoration of a piece of plate.
- noun In coalmining, a subsidence of the roof, in consequence of the working away of the coal: same as
weighting . - noun A large quantity: a lot; hence, plundered property; booty; boodle.
- To tramp about in search of work, carrying one's swag. See
swagman , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
- intransitive verb To sink down by its weight; to sag.
- intransitive verb Australia To tramp carrying a swag.
- noun A swaying, irregular motion.
- noun Cant or Slang A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.
- noun A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; -- called also a
bluey , or adrum . - noun Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
sway ; to cause to sway; - verb intransitive To
droop . - verb transitive To decorate (something) with
loops of drapedfabric . - noun A
loop ofdraped fabric . - noun A low point or
depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. - noun Alternative capitalization of
SWAG ; a wildguess orballpark estimate . - noun countable The
booty of aburglar orthief ; aboodle . - noun uncountable
Handouts ,freebies , orgiveaways , such as those handed out atconventions . - noun countable, Australia, dated The
possessions of abushman or itinerant worker, tied up in ablanket and carried over theshoulder , sometimes attached to a stick. - noun countable, Australia, by extension A small single-person tent, usually foldable in to an integral backpack.
- noun countable, Australia, New Zealand A large quantity (of something).
- noun slang
Style ;fashionable appearance ormanner .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun valuable goods
- noun a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
- verb walk as if unable to control one's movements
- verb droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- verb sway heavily or unsteadily
- noun goods or money obtained illegally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So heres my swag of how many people attend a party yesterday all over the country. my swag is 110000 total. fox/saudi/hate radio guesstimate with my BS filter of 10. 10million.
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Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking and a potential way to kick the habit, the smokeless smokes have been distributed in swag bags at the British film awards and hawked at an international trade show.
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Free crap for shrinks - swag from a psychiatric trade-show - Boing ...
Boing Boing 2009
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All that being said, the swag is great and running through the streets of "Gotham" was an exciting experience.
Citizens For Batman - Live Chicago and New York Meet-Ups! Updated! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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An interesting bit of commentary on this … I wonder if they used that Harvey Dent rally event a few months ago … where you met up at various locations to get free swag from the touring Dentmobile … to judge what 12 locations would be the biggest/best.
It's All Part of the Plan - The Dark Knight Trailer Hunt on Monday! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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“The GRAMMY gifts have become legendary ... the gold standard by which swag is measured,” says Lash Fary, CEO of Distinctive Assets.
Distinctive Assets Set to Rock the GRAMMY Talent Lounge and Gift Bag 2007
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` ` Every time we play them they have this certain swag to them that they can just beat us, '' said Stevenson, who exchanged his share of trash-talk during the game.
USATODAY.com 2007
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“The GRAMMY gifts have become legendary … the gold standard by which swag is measured,” says Lash Fary, CEO of Distinctive Assets.
Distinctive Assets Rocks the GRAMMY?s with the Official Talent Lounge and Gift Bag 2007
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The dance was dubbed the "swag dance," according to Britain's Sky News, and was inspired by a discussion about the prince's attire at his wedding in April.
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And I think the word swag has run its course because what's a word that people still say that they said from back then?
SOHH.com 2010
seanahan commented on the word swag
Stuff(sh!t) We All Get.
September 28, 2007
oroboros commented on the word swag
See boodle.
January 17, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word swag
She saw signs, and chilled as she saw them, of certain swags under her chin, if not yet reality, then certainly warning.
—Dorothy Parker, 'The Bolt behind the Blue'
Note also unusual intransitive use of 'chill'.
November 12, 2008
nfriedman commented on the word swag
There are many Urban Dictionary entries for "swag," most having to do with promotional merchandise distributed at concerts, trade shows, conferences, and awards shows. Probably related to older definition of "loot"; attempts at backronyms (Stuff We Are Given, Shit We All Get) are almost certainly spurious. Secondary Urban Dictionary definition--"the way one carries oneself"--may derive from "swagger."
June 8, 2009
drtufte commented on the word swag
There is a slang version of this in use as well, as an acronym for "Secretly We Are Gay". I was advised by someone who teaches Human Sexuality that this meaning is still in use.
February 26, 2013
Logophile77 commented on the word swag
This is a backronym.
January 24, 2018