swagger it

verb

swagger it

verb
1

Archaic To swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.

  • […]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:
  • 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:

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