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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 swag /ˈswæg/
 搖晃,贓物,水潭,珍貴物,垂花飾(vi.)搖晃,垂下

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swag v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swagged p. pr. & vb. n. Swagging ]
 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.
    I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth.   --Palsgrave.
 3. To tramp carrying a swag. [Australia]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swag, n.
 1. A swaying, irregular motion.
 2. A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle. [Cant or Slang]
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 swag
      n 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
      v 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]