Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swaggy; pendulous.
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- verb Present participle of
swag .
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Examples
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It was to act as the main pier or support of the bridge -- not only to prevent the long pole from "swagging" downward, but in fact to keep it from breaking altogether.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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The gifting suites of years past are still around, but in lieu of indiscriminatory swagging, companies are now trying to keep their freebie-giving under the radar.
Come for the Movies, Stay for the Swag Marshall Heyman 2012
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To civilize military brass you can either drill out the crimp or buy a swagging die.
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I fished in the secondhand cop utility belt swagging my hips for a microfiber cloth, then glanced around.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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According to Cathy, she witnessed so much waste with the traditional way of? swagging?, because so little of it actually made it into the hands of the intended celebrity.
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The actress, in town to promote her film Adrift in Manhattan, was busy swagging at the North Face station.
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Relatively modest budgets notwithstanding, I did my best to deliver élan I was swagging rooms when such was a rarity for workaday folk.
Weddings Valentine Style Diann Valentine 2006
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For some time a general stillness prevailed, which nothing happened to disturb but the shrill screams of some eunuchs in the rear; these vigilant guards, having remarked certain cages of the ladies swagging somewhat awry, and discovered that a few adventurous gallants had contrived to get in, soon dislodged the enraptured culprits.
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I have seen above five hundred hanged, but I never saw any have a better countenance in his dangling and pendilatory swagging.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I have seen above five hundred hanged, but I never saw any have a better countenance in his dangling and pendilatory swagging.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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