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noun
Swag  n.  
1.
A swaying, irregular motion.
2.
A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. (Cant or Slang)
3.
(Australia)
(a)
A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; called also a bluey, or a drum.
(b)
Any bundle of luggage similarly rolled up; hence, luggage in general. "He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself."


verb
Swag  v. i.  (past & past part. swagged; pres. part. swagging)  
1.
To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To sink down by its weight; to sag. "I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth."
3.
To tramp carrying a swag. (Australia)





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"Swag" Quotes from Famous Books



... production, I can see no sign whatever. It may come; but all the evidence is the other way. And as for a general public indignation against corrupt government, there is (below the few in the know who either share the swag or shrug their shoulders) no sign that it will be strong enough ...
— The Free Press • Hilaire Belloc
... fifty bodies; oh, threadbare lie! And of the true Cross enow to build Cologne Minster. Why, then, may not poor Cul de Jatte turn his penny with the crowd? Art but a scurvy tyrannical servant to let thy poor master from his share of the swag with your whoreson pilgrims, palmers and friars, black, grey, and crutched; for all these are of our brotherhood, and of our art, only masters they, and we but poor apprentices, in guild.' For his tongue was an ell ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... it? You might just as well try to stop the Irrawaddy with a pitchfork. And it's growing worse; there are some big people in it—the Hidden Hand Company—who keep out of sight, pay the money, employ the tools and collar the swag. They have agents all over this province, as well as India, China ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... well known, insist on the merits of a "swag," or a long package formed by rolling all their possessions into their blanket. They carry it over ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... am—son of one, grandson of the other, with hereditary traits from both strongly developed and ready for business. I want a literary partner—a man who will write me up as Bunny did Raffles, and Watson did Holmes, so that I may get a percentage on that part of the swag. I offer you the job, Jenkins. Those royalty statements show me that you are the man, and your books prove to me that you need a few fresh ideas. Come, what do you say? ...
— R. Holmes & Co. • John Kendrick Bangs


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