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Initialism of Special Warfare Action Group, a former group within the Philippine Navy, similar in nature to U.S. Navy SEALs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
A loop of draped fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: window coverings
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noun
Something that droops like a swag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A low point or depression in land; especially:
A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A low point or depression in land; especially:
A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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Synonyms: boodle, booty, fang, gizzit, haul, hot property, loot, pelf, pickings, pillage, plunder, prigging, sack, spoil, spoils, swag
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noun
Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
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Synonyms: merch, schwag
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noun
The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, dated
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Synonyms: bindle
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noun
A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, broadly, countable
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noun
A large quantity (of something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, countable
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noun
A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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Synonyms: stock
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
Initialism of scientific wild-ass guess; also speculative/sophisticated/stupid/some wild-ass guess Used humorously to indicate that an estimate was more of a guess than the result of any stringent data analysis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang, vulgar
Synonyms: WAG, wild guess, uneducated guess, stab in the dark, shot in the dark, assumption, conjecture, foreguess, given, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, posit, possibility, postulation, presumption, reckoning, speculation, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory
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Broader terms: guess
noun
Alternative form of swag (handouts, freebies)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, uncountable
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verb
To (cause to) sway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Synonyms: sway, lurch
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verb
To droop; to sag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, ambitransitive
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verb
To transport stolen goods.
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verb
To transport in the course of arrest.
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noun
a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bundle, sheaf
noun
goods or money obtained illegally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, dirty money
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stolen property
noun
valuable goods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: valuable
verb
sway heavily or unsteadily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rock, sway, shake
verb
walk as if unable to control one's movements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, careen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: walk
verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sag, droop, flag
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sink, drop, drop down
Narrower terms: slump, slouch, bag
History
Acronym of various terms.
From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (“to swing”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Clipping of swagger. A common folk etymology is that the word derives from an acronym for "she wants a gentleman", "secretly we are gay" or other phrases.
From 18th c. British thieves' slang, from the noun use of Etymology 1 above, "a swaying, an uneven motion." A folk etymology, particularly for the handouts definition, is “stuff we all get”.
From swag, an English slang word, in the mistaken belief that it originated as an acronym ("stuff we all get" or similar). For the true origin of the word, see swag.
Across languages
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
