What is "swag"

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.]

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.

3. To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia]

Swag \Swag\, n.

1. A swaying, irregular motion.

2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang]
   --Charles Reade.

3. [Australia]

   1. 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.

   2. 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.

"to move heavily or unsteadily," 1520s, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse sveggja "to swing, sway," from the same source as Old English swingan "to swing" (see swing (v.)). Related: Swagged; swagging.

1650s, "a lurching or swaying," from swag (v.). Meaning "ornamental festoon" (1794) is said to be probably a separate development from the verb (but see swage). Swag lamp attested from 1966.\n

\nColloquial sense of "promotional material" (from recording companies, etc.) was in use by 2001; swag was English criminal's slang for "quantity of stolen property, loot" from c.1839. This might be related to earlier senses of "round bag" (c.1300) and "big, blustering fellow" (1580s), which may represent separate borrowings from the Scandinavian source. "The primary meaning was 'a bulging bag'" [Klein].

Etymology 1 n. 1 A loop of draped fabric. 2 A low point or depression in land; ''especially'', a place where water collects. vb. 1 (context intransitive and transitive English) To sway; to cause to sway. 2 (context intransitive English) To droop; to sag. 3 (context transitive English) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. Etymology 2

interj. (rfdef: English) n. (context slang English) style; fashionable appearance or manner. Etymology 3

n. (context countable English) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle. vb. (context Australia ambitransitive English) To travel on foot carrying a '''swag''' (possessions tied in a blanket). (From 1850s.) Etymology 4

n. (alternative case form of SWAG dot= English); a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

1. n. valuable goods

2. goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, dirty money]

3. a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman

4. v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: sag, droop, flag]

5. walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, careen]

6. sway heavily or unsteadily

7. [also: swagging, swagged]

Swag may refer to:

In Australia and New Zealand, a swag is a portable sleeping unit. It is normally a bundle of belongings rolled in a traditional fashion to be carried by a foot traveller in the bush. Before motor transport was common, foot travel over long distances was essential to agriculture in the Australian bush. It is sometimes referred to as a "backpack bed". Swags have been carried by shearers, miners, the unemployed, and many others, some of whom would have been happy to have been called swagmen and some not.

Swag is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard, first published in 1976 and since also released as an audio recording. The first paperback edition was published under the alternative title of Ryan's Rules.

Ernest Stickley, Jr. reappears in Stick.

Swag is the fourth solo album by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, released in 2002.

"Swag" is the 11th episode from the dramedy series Ugly Betty. This was supposed to be the fourth episode, which was scheduled to air on October 19, 2006, but it was replaced by " Fey's Sleigh Ride". It has been billed as "The Lost Episode" and filled in loose ends via new scenes. On the first season DVD, "Swag" is listed as episode 4 and all the scenes involving Betty moving her things from MODE (when it aired in the United States and Canada) have been removed and the scenes involving the Masked Lady were put back in. In addition, the Betty and Christina flashback scenes were not included in the DVD. For syndication purposes in the United States, the episode with the flashbacks are aired instead of the original scenes. Many critics have found it to have been uncouth.

Swag is a United Kingdom prank show broadcast on Five from 2002 to 2004. The general theme of the show was to trick members of the public into committing a minor crime (usually stealing) but then get their comeuppance in one way or another. There were some pranks that were repeated on multiple occasions, while others were one offs in a certain episode.

A very popular prank from the series was one where a car was parked on the side of a road with its keys in the door and left unlocked in order to tempt people to steal it. However, the car was fitted to lock when started and then do a variety of things, such as talk to the burglar or start snowing inside the car. They were eventually let out.

The show was conceived by Guy Ritchie and produced by his company SKA Films and the independent television company Monkey.

In one incident, a person enticed to steal an expensive car which was then filled with foam spotted the cameraman filming and stabbed him in the leg with a screwdriver.

A DVD of series one has been released on 19 Sep 2005, however there is still no word of series two on DVD.

SWAG is an asset class comprising silver, wine, art and gold, identified by economist Joe Roseman in his 2011 Investment Week article, "SWAG: The Industry's Latest Acronym". He describes these as transportable and easy to store physical assets with no income stream (and so no exposure to income tax) and no incumbent debt, whose performance appears unrelated to the performance of equity markets; and he notes that none of these factors would be affected by sovereign default.

Because of their scarcity, desirability, durability and stability and the independence of their price from stock market prices they can add genuine diversity to an asset portfolio.

S×W×A×G (pron. Suwaggu in Japanese) is the first album by former AKB48 member Tomomi Itano. It was released in Japan on the label King Records on July 2, 2014.

The album was released in three versions: the Limited Edition, the Regular Edition and the Samantha Vega Edition (the latter is released in collaboration with the accessory line Samantha Vega).

It included title tracks from all five Tomomi Itano's CD singles (from the debut single " Dear J" to the fifth single " Little"), two limited-distribution digital singles ("Wanna Be Now" and "Koi ni Pierce"), and four new songs.