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SWAGGIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
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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)