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schwag

noun
/ʃwæɡ/

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly related to shag (“shredded tobacco”). The "marijuana" noun sense is attested since the 1980s in the United States, the adjective since the 1990s. The "trinkets or items given away" sense is a variant of swag from 19th century thieves' cant.

Definitions

  1. Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.

    • The stuff tasted good, better than the usual shwag. I handed him his pipe back, then pulled out my wallet. "Is twenty good?"

  2. Alternative form of swag (“trinkets or promotional items given away at an event”).

    • National pride deserves something more than a fistful of freebies from a governmental schwag bag or the wearing of any one of the staggering array of commercially available pins.

  3. inferior

    inferior; low-grade

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for schwag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA