Meaning of SWAG
Pronunciation: | | swag
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] goods or money obtained illegally
- [n] (informal) valuable goods
- [v] sway heavily or unsteadily
- [v] walk as if unable to control one's movements
- [v] droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
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| Synonyms: | | booty, careen, droop, flag, keel, loot, lurch, pillage, plunder, prize, reel, sag, stagger |
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| See Also: | | bag, cut, drop, drop down, rock, shake, sink, slouch, slump, stolen property, sway, valuable, walk | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Swag\, v. i.
To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia]
\Swag\, n. [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. --Lawson.
\Swag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swagging}.] [Cf. Icel. sveggja, sveigja to bend, to sway,
Norw. svaga to sway. See {Sway}.]
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. --Sir H. Wotton.
I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth.
--Palsgrave.
\Swag\, n.
1. A swaying, irregular motion.
2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang]
--Charles Reade.
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Computing Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Scientific (or Silly) Wild Ass Guess. A term used by technical teams when establishing high level sizings for large projects. |
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