(v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
(v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
(n.) A swaying, irregular motion.
(n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then my 3rd was KFC and I knew he was right July 7, 2016 Already there are reports of churches and police stations being flooded by Pokémon Trainers keen to find rare Pokémon or grab swag from PokéStops.
(2) He sat on the main stage beneath a blue and yellow swagging.
(3) Henry and his team will be taking no prisoners until the swag is safely gathered in.
(4) The clip of him shacking out to the dubstep tune Swag Music became a particularly big hit.
(5) Invariably someone tweets a picture of a dog with pro-Israel swag , and it’s always absurd.
(6) "G osh," gasps Lucy Worsley, peering intently at Edward I's pendulous swags.
(7) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
(8) Undoubtedly John Humphrys would ask him how he justifies his mighty swag to a striking staff on considerably less than the median.
(9) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
(10) People push and cluster their way through the narrow alleyways between stands carrying big bags of swag – usually black T-shirts and posters and little action figures.
(11) One huckster inside the de facto pope swag bazaar at the Columbus Circle subway station confirmed that he would resell any tickets – any tickets he obtained whatsoever – at a higher price than he had paid.
(12) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
(13) There is a lovely wisteria outside, forming great swags of flowers around the window - it feels like being in a treetop bower.
(14) Spiders slung swags and trusses of silk in every corner.
(15) I’ve shared slightly embarrassed glances with other suspected Pokémon Go players when we’ve all ended up crowded around the same landmark, unloading swag from the PokéStop – but my excitement when a Crabby appeared in the dairy section at the local supermarket was not shared by passing shoppers, who no doubt couldn’t work out why I was enthusiastically “photographing” milk.
(16) No, you might not be carrying the Chanel swag about your person (although you might – honestly, that Oxfam in Kensington is a goldmine), but you're still looking good, so enjoy it.
(17) UK commissions for ITV1 include SWAGS, a six-part drama series about service wives and girlfriends, and historical drama Mr Selfridge.
(18) I slept in a swag – basically, a glorified sleeping bag cover.
(19) Now that he’s got his second-term swag on, he’s able to let loose a little bit,” she said.
(20) Last month, the FBI director, James Comey, told an audience: “I put a piece of tape over the camera because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.” The corporate swag company Idea Stage Promotions describes its Webcam Cover 1.0 as “the HOTTEST PROMOTIONAL ITEM on the market today”.
Swagger
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
(v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
(v. t.) To bully.
(n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(2) From flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities , the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a hint of apology.
(3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(4) Such swagger would look naïve and unreflexive now, in a country assailed by anxiety about its own impotence in the world.
(5) Ratko Mladic, opening his defence in The Hague this week, has reason to understand the change in a way he did not when he was swaggering through the Bosnian killing fields.
(6) (This is not just swagger: Barton's brother Michael, after all, is currently serving a minimum of 17 years in prison for his part in the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in 2005.
(7) In an ideal world one of the candidates will swagger over to the other, as Al Gore did to George Bush in 2000.
(8) I am aware, too, that I associate tattoos on men with aggression, the kind of arrogant swagger that goes with vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses.
(9) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
(10) A distinct swagger in his step became apparent as his career developed at Boro but right up until his appearance at Bradford crown court, there had been little evidence of a genuinely darker side to his nature.
(11) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
(12) Cut to the elegant hotel corridor, Gimme Shelter screaming on the soundtrack, and Denzel emerges, swaggering and magnificent in full pilot's uniform, ready to go to work.
(13) The 22-year-old was outstanding, a swaggering, forceful presence who left City's players with little choice but to hack him down.
(14) Most important are the donors, who can usually be spotted by their swagger and the strong smell of cigar-smoke.
(15) Tottenham’s Denmark playmaker had not completed 90 minutes since 15 August, a knee injury hampering his early-season form, but two free-kick equalisers blew away the cobwebs here and ensured deserved parity for his team in a vibrant game characterised by swagger on the ball and defensive jitters off it.
(16) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(17) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
(18) Promoting Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp swaggered through the hall dressed as his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, as fans were told that Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner, will return for the fifth instalment of the franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales, in 2017.
(19) Former Labour staffers, moderate refugees fleeing the hard-left takeover under Corbyn, sometimes bristled at what they saw as unmerited swagger in the step of the Downing Street contingent, who expected to easily replicate their victory in the previous May’s general election.
(20) But it also reflects US elite breast-beating about economic failure, the rise of China and a loss of global swagger since the Bush years.