swagger
/ˈswæɡ.ə/ · noun
Meaning
- Confidence, pride.
- A bold or arrogant strut.
- A prideful boasting or bragging.
- To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
- To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
- Fashionable; trendy.
- An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging.
- A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
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