swag

Plural: swags

Noun

• valuable goods
• goods or money obtained illegally
• a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
• A loop of draped fabric.
• Something that droops like a swag.
• A low point or depression in land; especially:
• A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
• A low point or depression in land; especially:
• A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
• Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
• Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
• Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
• The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
• A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
• A large quantity (of something).
• A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
• Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

Verb

• droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
• walk as if unable to control one's movements
• sway heavily or unsteadily
• To (cause to) sway.
• To droop; to sag.
• To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
• 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.
• To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
• To transport stolen goods.
• To transport in the course of arrest.

Examples

• "I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right."

Synonyms

boodle, booty, careen, dirty money, droop, fang, flag, gizzit, haul, hot property, keel, loot, lurch, merch, pelf, pickings, pillage, plunder, prigging, prize, reel, sack, sag, schwag, spoil, spoils, stagger, stock, swag, sway