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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swag \Swag\, verb (used without an object) [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] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Swag \Swag\, noun
1. A swaying, irregular motion.
2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang] --Charles Reade.
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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
swag
noun
1: 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
verb
1: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: {sag}, {droop}, {flag}]
2: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: {stagger}, {reel}, {keel}, {lurch}, {careen}]
3: sway heavily or unsteadily [also: {swagging}, {swagged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
190 Moby Thesaurus words for "swag": 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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SWAG Scientific (or Silly) Wild Ass Guess. A term used by technical teams when establishing high level sizings for large projects. (2000-08-09)
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