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swagger

/ˈswæɡ.ə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Confidence, pride.
  2. A bold or arrogant strut.
  3. A prideful boasting or bragging.
  4. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
  5. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
  6. Fashionable; trendy.
  7. An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging.
  8. A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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