swagger

Object

• arrogance: Like every Manc band worth their salt they also have their full quota of swaggering arrogance.

Converse of object

• have: They have a swagger, not too cocky, it's not a chip on the shoulder attitude thing, they just know.

Preposition: around

• stage: Apartment are more sure of themselves, swaggering confidently around stage.

Adjective modifier

• cocky: Is it even really the same band that hijacked Britpop with a cocky Mancunian swagger ten years ago?

Modifies a noun

• stick: Perhaps I am overlooking the swagger stick, which " accessory " was a debatable item of uniform for various services at various periods.

Modifying Another Word

• back: Ten minutes later, he swaggered back into the study with the panache of the overlord in a classical samurai film.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: I love that even tho Johnny Borrell swaggers around like an autistic bouncer, his lyrics express a sensitivity at odds with his bravado.

Noun used with modifier

• hip-swinging: Imagine Jarvis Cocker writing lyrics for Paul McCartney or putting dry observational wit in to Franz Ferdinand's hip-swinging swagger to make punk-funk fun.