English Explanatory Dictionary

swag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To (cause to) sway.
  2. To droop; to sag.
  3. To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  4. 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.
noun
  1. A loop of draped fabric.
  2. Something that droops like a swag.
  3. A low point or depression in land; especially:
  4. A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
  5. A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
noun
  1. Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
noun
  1. Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
  2. Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
  3. The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
  4. A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
  5. A large quantity (of something).
  6. A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
verb
  1. To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
  2. To transport stolen goods.
  3. To transport in the course of arrest.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
noun
  1. 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.
name
  1. Initialism of Special Warfare Action Group.
noun
  1. Alternative form of swag (handouts, freebies)

Pronunciation

/swæɡ/ en-au-swag.ogg

Word forms

swag swags swagging swagged

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

sway lurch boodle booty fang gizzit haul hot property loot pelf pickings pillage plunder prigging sack spoil spoils swag merch schwag bindle stock assumption conjecture educated guess foreguess given guess guesstimate hunch hypothesis inference overhope posit possibility postulation presumption reckoning speculation supposition surmise suspicion theory working hypothesis

Related words

WAG

Derived words

swagbelly swag light swag-shop swagger swaggy swaglike swagwoman swag it out swag it up swag out swag up swagful swagless swag bag swag chovey bloke swagsman swagman rum swag swag barrow swaggie swag it

Translations

Spanish: dádivas promocionales Finnish: nyytti Finnish: kuoppa French: balluchon French: baluchon Hungarian: batyu Italian: fagotto Italian: averi Russian: узел
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