English Dictionary

swag

/swæɡ/

verb

(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). / To transport stolen goods.

He swagged into the room with confidence.

意味（1）

(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.

意味（2）

To transport stolen goods.

Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home.