n.
- an ornamental festoon of flowers, fruit, and greenery.
▸a curtain or drape fastened to hang in a drooping curve.
- informal money or goods taken by a thief or burglar.
- Austral./NZ a traveller's or miner's bundle of personal belongings.
- Austral./NZ informal a large number or amount.
v.
(swags, swagging, swagged)
- arrange in or decorate with swags.
- Austral./NZ travel with a swag of belongings.
- chiefly literary hang or sway heavily.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘bulging bag’): prob. of Scand. origin.