Green’s Dictionary of Slang
swag, n.1 1. a shop (and its contents) viewed as booty. 2. money, either notes and cash, esp. when illicitly gained. 3. a thief’s booty (esp. linen or clothes as opposed to jewels or plate) or a pedlar’s wares. 4. any form of goods; also attrib. 5. the trade in small, second-rate articles; also attrib. 6. a lot or plenty of anything. 7. the pack carried by an itinerant or vagrant. 8. a share in booty. 9. a trader in small articles, the keeper of a swag shop under swag n.1 10. a bribe. 11. a robbery. 12. a party. 13. cheap jewellery or other small articles. 14. cannabis. 15. free merchandise given away at publicity events. 16. vocabulary, terminology. 17. see
swag shop under swag n.1
17 sub-entries
swag, n.2 hard liquor.
swag, n.3 1. a wild guess, used to answer homework or examination questions. 2. gossip, popular lore.
swag, n.4 self-confidence, style.
1 sub-entry
swag, adj.1 a semi-coded admission of one’s homosexuality.
swag, adj.2 extreme, frightening.
swag, v. 1. to place, to put, to carry; thus swagging n. 2. to steal, to take forcibly. 3. to carry a pack, i.e. a swag n.1 (7) 4. to hustle along, to hurry. 5. to grab up (but not in criminal sense). 6. to smuggle. 7. to sell stolen property. 8. to look good.
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swagger, adj. smart, fashionable.
swagless
(adj.)
1. lacking booty. 2. in sport, lacking in score. under swag, n.1
swagman
(n.)
that member of a criminal team deputed to leave with the plunder. under swag, n.1
swagwise
(adv.)
in the manner of an intinerant’s pack. under swag, n.1
swag-barrow man
(n.)
a street-seller of miscellaneous goods; thus swag-barrow, his cart. under swag, n.1
swag chovey
(n.)
a criminal receiver’s shop or store; thus swag-chovey bloke/bloak, a marine store dealer. under swag, n.1
swag-cove
(n.)
a receiver of stolen goods. under swag, n.1
swag-getter
(n.)
a thief specializing in silk; cit. 1882 is slightly mis-defined. under swag, n.1
swagman
(n.)
see separate entries. under swag, n.1
swag shop
(n.)
a shop that deals wholesale in cheap articles. under swag, n.1
swagsman
(n.)
see separate entry. under swag, n.1
swag-woman
(n.)
see swagman n.1 under swag, n.1
swagless
(adj.)
lacking in self-confidence. under swag, n.4
swag away
(v.)
to abduct, to kidnap; thus in fig. use. under swag, v.
swag it
(v.)
1. to live as a tramp, or itinerant worker. 2. in weak use of sense 1, to travel. under swag, v.
swagged up, adj. possessing an abundance of jewellery, ostentatious or expensive clothes.
swagger, n. 1. an itinerant worker, who travels with his pack on his back while looking for employment; thus swagger v. to travel with a pack. 2. attrib. use of sense 1. 3. a receiver of stolen goods.
swaggery, adj. smart, fashionable.
swaggie, n. 1. a vagrant, a tramp. 2. in attrib. use of sense 1. 3. in pl., pork and veal sausages stuffed with cheese and bacon cooked in a barecue sauce.
swagging, n.1 1. walking in the mountains with a pack. 2. living as a tramp, esp. in the outback. 3. see swag v. (1)
swagging, n.2 of city sanitation workers, taking money on the promise of dealing with an individual’s rubbish (such rubbish clearance is free).
swag in, v. to cause someone to enter surreptitiously.
swagman, n.1 a man in the swag trade, a street-seller of miscellaneous goods.
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