Swagman - What does it mean?
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(Australia, historical) An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging.
* 1902 , , 2007, Echo Library,
* 2007 , Melissa Harper, The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia ,
* 2009 , Bronwyn Sell, John Caffrey, c.1850-87'', ''Law Breakers and Mischief Makers: 50 Notorious New Zealanders , 2010, ReadHowYouWant,
(US, slang) A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
* 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, They Can Get It for You BETTER Than Wholesale'', '' ,
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(wikipedia swagman)Alternative forms
* swaggie (diminutive)Noun
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- She was not afraid of horsemen; but swagmen , going to, or worse, coming from the dismal, drunken little township, a day?s journey beyond, terrified her. One had called at the house today, and asked for tucker.
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- In his prose works Landlopers'' and ''Knocking Round , Brereton penned affectionate portraits of shearers, swagmen and farmers? wives, based on people he had met on his walks.
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- The policeman thought it best to surprise the man, since he might be armed, so he disguised himself as a swagman and pounced as the man returned from his bridge-painting job.
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- According to Tommy, the mob uses swagmen like himself as down-the-line distributors for these large jobs.