swag

noun12

1. •
   (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.

   • Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything! — 2009
2. •
   (informal) Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.

   • You may hesitate before you pocket the swag, wondering if doing so is OK. Worry not: Hospitality industry folks say they’re delighted when people feel compelled to take one of these as a keepsake. — 2022
3. •
   Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.

   • “It′s all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded. — 1838
4. •
   A loop of draped fabric.

   • He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows. — 2004
5. •
   Something that droops like a swag.

   • Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog. — 2022
6. •
   (Australia, old-fashioned) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.

   • He tramped for years till the swag he bore seemed part of himself to him. — 1896
7. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A large quantity (of something).

   • New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women′s hockey World Cup match. — 2010
8. •
   (Australia) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
9. •
   A low point or depression in land.
10. •
    A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.

    • This peach tree is th' big tree that allus bore so many peaches. It's th' one in th' low swag by th' old rotted white oak stump. — 1941
11. •
    A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.

    • […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear. — 1927
12. •
    (no longer used) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.

verb7

1. •
   To (cause to) sway.

   • Hungry clouds swag on the deep — 1790
2. •
   To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.

   • Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown[…]. — 2009
3. •
   To droop; to sag.

   • so laid, they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Posture — 1624
4. •
   (Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

   • That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation. — 1976
5. •
   To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.

   • Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet. — 1991
6. •
   To transport stolen goods.
7. •
   To transport in the course of arrest.

noun1

1. •
   (slang, vulgar) Initialism of scientific wild-ass guess; also speculative/sophisticated/stupid/some wild-ass guess Used humorously to indicate that an estimate was more of a guess than the result of any stringent data analysis.