+anterose Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 What does SWAG mean? I am new to geocaching and trying to learn all the terms. Please enlighten me. Thank you, Anterose Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Welcome to the Forums! SWAG means "Stuff We All Get" or something like that . . . It refers to the items we might start a cache out with, or trade for when we find a cache. Other Geocaching terms can be found at the TNLNSL? link in my Signature. Quote Link to comment
+anterose Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 Welcome to the Forums! SWAG means "Stuff We All Get" or something like that . . . It refers to the items we might start a cache out with, or trade for when we find a cache. Other Geocaching terms can be found at the TNLNSL? link in my Signature. Thanl you so very much. anterose Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 What does SWAG mean? I am new to geocaching and trying to learn all the terms. Please enlighten me.Thank you, Anterose Swag is an OLD term. At one time it referred to ill-gotten gains such as pirate booty. Over time it came to mean any type of loot. It isn't an acronym........... Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) What does SWAG mean? I am new to geocaching and trying to learn all the terms. Please enlighten me.Thank you, Anterose Swag is an OLD term. At one time it referred to ill-gotten gains such as pirate booty. Over time it came to mean any type of loot. It isn't an acronym........... Thrak is correct. The term has been around for a long time and is not an acronym for "stuff we all get", but has been commonly used in the US for some years as a term for free stuff. (e.g. "I went to the trade show and picked up some great swag"). I first heard it about 15 years ago. A Google search tells us that "in 19th century British thieves' slang, swag was a thief's plunder or booty or a quantity of goods unlawfully acquired. The term appears in Grose's 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, where one of the definitions is "any quantity of goods". James Hardy Vaux, who was a convict in Australia, includes the term in the slang dictionary compiled in 1812 and published in his Memoirs in 1819: "The Swag is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained". In Australia the term swag was transferred from the quantity of goods acquired by a thief to the possessions carried by a traveller in the bush. I guess the "Jolly swagman" in the Aussie song, Waltzing Matilda is an example of the latter usage." Anyway, looking at my Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary, among the definitions of swag are "goods obtained illegally" and "loot". My guess is the the current meaning has evolved from the latter usage and the idea that its an acronym for "stuff we all get" is apocryphal and of recent vintage. Edited July 27, 2007 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 It's the dollar store items that we all carry with us to and from cache sites. Oh - and all that stuff briansnat said too.... Quote Link to comment
TopangaHiker Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 (edited) A long time ago I heard SWAG was also an acronym for Scientific Wild A** Guess. ...using the SWAG method we calculated the answer to how many pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. Edited July 27, 2007 by TopangaHiker Quote Link to comment
+anterose Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 A long time ago I heard SWAG was also an acronym for Scientific Wild A** Guess. ...using the SWAG method we calculated the answer to how many pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. Quote Link to comment
+anterose Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 A long time ago I heard SWAG was also an acronym for Scientific Wild A** Guess. ...using the SWAG method we calculated the answer to how many pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. Thanks to everyone for your answers and help... I am getting more and more excited about Geocaching every day, can't wait to get out and do more finds. Anterose Quote Link to comment
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