swagger
Americanverb (used without object)
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to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
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to boast or brag noisily.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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(intr) to walk or behave in an arrogant manner
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to brag loudly
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rare (tr) to force, influence, etc, by blustering
noun
adjective
noun
Related Words
See strut 1.
Other Word Forms
- outswagger verb (used with object)
- swaggerer noun
- swaggering adjective
- swaggeringly adverb
Etymology
Origin of swagger
Example Sentences
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The confidence and swagger that had so recently defined Team USA had deserted them.
“When we started talking with Oscar, he came in with his Prince stuff. When you look at his performance, you see all those subtleties, the physicality, the swagger.”
From Los Angeles Times
Just two months after appearing as the swaggering Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now,” Duvall offered a more intimate variation on a military man — essentially Kilgore without an actual war, just a domestic battlefield.
From Los Angeles Times
He shot the ball with exaggerated swagger, false confidence.
From Literature
That swagger is providing plenty of entertainment for French supporters, who were rewarded for their long weekend in Cardiff with a thumping win.
From BBC
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