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swagger it en · VERB
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(archaic) To swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.
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:[…]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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