Usually means: Australian wanderer carrying belongings, resourceful.
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  1. swagman: Merriam-Webster
  2. swagman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swagman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swagman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swagman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swagman, swagman: Wordnik
  7. swagman: Wiktionary
  8. swagman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swagman: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. swagman: Dictionary.com
  11. Swagman (comics), Swagman, The Swagman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. swagman: Rhymezone
  13. swagman: FreeDictionary.org
  14. swagman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. swagman: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swagman, swagman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a swag (“bundle of personal items”); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.
noun:  (British, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.
noun:  (US, slang) A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence.

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