swag

Examples

• All

• The news report detailed how the stolen swag included several valuable artworks.

• After the heist, they celebrated their success with their share of the swag.

• We brought you the swag; we're going to take our cut.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Ten years of hoarding swag and now we finally get to spend it.

  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

• Maybe you better tell me where the swag is, in case I have to bribe somebody.

  The Ref (1994)

• We're not looting dead bodies for swag.

  The Grey (2012)

• If we were caught with the swag, we’d go straight to boarding school.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

B

booty

vsswag

180 7.7

Valuable things or money taken illegally, often during a raid

means informal stolen valuables rather than formal wartime seizure

L

loot

vsswag

53 4.4

Things stolen from shops during chaos

refers to informal stolen valuables rather than broad casual gains

P

prize

vsswag

• Archaic

38 9.1

Goods taken illegally, often by soldiers or pirates

is the informal term for goods taken by thieves, not naval or wartime capture

S

stolen property

vsswag

24 2.8

Things that someone takes without permission

is the informal label for such stolen valuables, not the legal term

P

plunder

vsswag

15 5.5

Things taken by force during war or robbery

focuses on informal thief-taken valuables rather than large wartime seizures

P

pillage

vsswag

1 7.9

Things taken by force during war or riots

means informal stolen valuables rather than forceful wartime seizure

How Valuable

treasure

676 1.1

booty

180 7.7

swag

• Archaic

4 9.4

loot

53 4.4

Surface Forms

Etymology