swagger it

verb

To swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.

Meanings

verbswagger it (third-person singular simple present swaggers it, present participle swaggering it, simple past and past participle swaggered it)

present singular third person swaggers it · participle present swaggering it · participle past swaggered it · past swaggered it

  1. archaicTo swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.

    […]and there is no reason why I should not leave this wretched hole at once and go to one of the best hotels and swagger it!

    1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 18
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    Other women in war did not try to retain it, but seem to have welcomed the chance to put on male attire and swagger it in breeches;

    1984, Country Life, volume 175
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