swagger

IPA: swˈægɝ

noun

  • Confidence, pride.
  • A bold or arrogant strut.
  • A prideful boasting or bragging.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, historical) Synonym of swagman

verb

  • To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
  • To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
  • To walk with a swaying motion.

adjective

  • (slang, archaic) Fashionable; trendy.
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Examples of "swagger" in Sentences

  • Who is the guy swaggering
  • In the band we march and swagger.
  • The gang swaggered around the town.
  • The man swaggers in front of the people.
  • He swaggered after he won the competition.
  • The mean boys were swaggering near the weak boys.
  • The winners swagger as they walk through the door.
  • He wears glasses and walks with the sort of swagger.
  • A new call to swagger from the Hollywood left - USATODAY. com
  • You swagger around the place bossing people and threatening them.
  • It came to epitomize the sound, the sexiness, and swagger of the band itself.
  • ` ` Our team swagger is really high right now, '' Hawks forward Al Horford said.
  • Brodeur and Luongo brim with confidence, while Fleury has to ask what, exactly, the English word "swagger" means.
  • The theatricality of Katherine's piety, Anne's glamour and Henry's swagger is all reflected in the gilt-edged wardrobe.
  • He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.
  • Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.

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