Meaning

11 senses
  1. A loop of draped fabric.

  2. Something that droops like a swag.

  3. A low point or depression in land; especially:

    A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.

  4. A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.

  5. (slang, uncountable)Style; fashionable appearance or manner.

  6. (uncountable)Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.

    Diebesgut, Beute

  7. (informal, uncountable)Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.

  8. (Australia, countable, dated)The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.

  9. (Australia, broadly, countable)A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.

  10. (Australia, New Zealand, countable)A large quantity (of something).

  11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.

    valuable goods

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The reporter's luggage was filled with branded swag from the promotional event.

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  2. That cat is swag.

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  3. On the heavy, polished table stood an oval glass dish decorated with little gilt swags.

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  4. In fact, to listen to her, you would think the flesh hung from her shoulders like swags from a curtain rail.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
stolen goods:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English swagen, a late collateral form of *swawen possibly originati

Inherited from Middle English swagen, a late collateral form of *swawen possibly originating from Lancashire and Yorkshire (possibly continued in Scots swaw (“wave”); parallel to e.g. drag for draw), from Old Norse *svaga (“to swerve, sway”), of unclear origin. 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”.

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