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SWAGGIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swaggie mean? 

SWAGGIE (noun)
  The noun SWAGGIE has 1 sense:

1. an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of workplay

  Familiarity information: SWAGGIE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWAGGIE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

swagger; swaggie; swagman

Hypernyms ("swaggie" is a kind of...):

gipsy; gypsy; itinerant (a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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