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Luggage, knapsack, a bundle; also food carried about one. Swag-shop, a store of minor, or cheap-priced goods. (Scotch, sweg.)
“[Palliser] began to retrace the way by which he had fled and, descending carefully to the spot where he had thrown off his swag, found it as he had left it.” —
Plenty. Rhyming slang: A bag-full means plenty, and by omitting full, “bag” remains to rhyme with swag. (See Chivy.)
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