swag
A loop of draped fabricA loop of draped fabric.
» The reporter's luggage was filled with branded swag from the promotional event.
Meaning
11 sensesA loop of draped fabric.
Something that droops like a swag.
A low point or depression in land; especially:
A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
(slang, uncountable)Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
(uncountable)Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
Diebesgut, Beute
(informal, uncountable)Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
(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.
(Australia, broadly, countable)A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
(Australia, New Zealand, countable)A large quantity (of something).
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
valuable goods
Examples
4 sentencesThe reporter's luggage was filled with branded swag from the promotional event.
That cat is swag.
On the heavy, polished table stood an oval glass dish decorated with little gilt swags.
In fact, to listen to her, you would think the flesh hung from her shoulders like swags from a curtain rail.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Inherited from Middle English swagen, a late collateral form of *swawen possibly originatiInherited 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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