'Swag' definitions:
Definition of 'swag'
(from WordNet)
noun
Valuable goods
noun
noun
A bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
verb
Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: sag, droop, swag, flag]
verb
Walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen]
verb
Sway heavily or unsteadily
Definition of 'Swag'
From: GCIDE
- Swag \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.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sink down by its weight; to sag. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. --Palsgrave. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Swag'
From: GCIDE
- Swag \Swag\, n.
- 1. A swaying, irregular motion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] --Charles Reade. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Lawson. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'swag'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angularity,
- arch,
- ascend,
- bag,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- bank,
- bend,
- bend back,
- blackmail,
- bob,
- bobble,
- boodle,
- booty,
- bow,
- cadence,
- cant,
- careen,
- cascade,
- catenary,
- cave,
- cave in,
- climb,
- coggle,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- daggle,
- dangle,
- decline,
- decurrence,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- depend,
- descend,
- dip,
- dome,
- drabble,
- drag,
- draggle,
- drape,
- droop,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- drop,
- embow,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- flag,
- flap,
- flex,
- flop,
- flop down,
- floppy,
- flow,
- fluctuate,
- flump,
- flump down,
- flutter,
- founder,
- give way,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- graft,
- hang,
- hang down,
- haul,
- hook,
- hot goods,
- hump,
- hunch,
- inclination,
- incline,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- inflect,
- keel,
- lapse,
- lean,
- leaning,
- leaning tower,
- librate,
- limp,
- list,
- loop,
- loose,
- loot,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- lower,
- lowering,
- lurch,
- nod,
- nodding,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- pend,
- pendulate,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- pitch,
- plop,
- plop down,
- plump,
- plunder,
- pork barrel,
- prize,
- public till,
- public trough,
- rake,
- recurve,
- reel,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- resonate,
- retreat,
- retroflex,
- rhino,
- rise,
- rock,
- rocks,
- roll,
- round,
- sag,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- scratch,
- set,
- settle,
- settle down,
- shake,
- shekels,
- shelve,
- sidle,
- sink,
- sink down,
- sinkage,
- slant,
- slope,
- slouch,
- slump,
- slump down,
- smash,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- squeeze,
- stealings,
- stolen goods,
- stuff,
- stumpy,
- submerge,
- submergence,
- subside,
- subsidence,
- sugar,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swing,
- swinging,
- take,
- till,
- tilt,
- tilter,
- tip,
- toss,
- tower of Pisa,
- trail,
- turn,
- uprise,
- vacillate,
- vault,
- vibrate,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wampum,
- wave,
- waver,
- weep,
- wilt,
- wind,
- wobble,
- yaw