swagger

Object

• arrogance: Like every Manc band worth their salt they also have their full quota of swaggering arrogance.
• style: Osunlade doesn't disappoint as he regales the listener with his swaggering, slinky style.
• monster: Sonic Reducer is a swaggering monster of a punk song.
• rock: The quality of both the song and video are very impressive with Century Man doing swaggering, arrogant indie rock well.

Converse of object

• have: They have a swagger, not too cocky, it's not a chip on the shoulder attitude thing, they just know.
• get: United have got that famous swagger back in the last month.
• see: The grand finale saw Razorlight swagger on to the stage of the Shepherds Bush Empire at 6.30pm on Saturday evening.

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?
• arrogant: He is tall and handsome, with an arrogant swagger as he whips his floppy hair across his brow.
• confident: Super Ultra Masters - Eric Dowey Eric poses as well as his confident swagger on to the stage would suggest.
• cocksure: Live, Scully entertain as much as they captivate, with their cocksure swagger, spitting out clever acurate lyrics that make you think.
• macho: He walks shirtless with a macho swagger, yet underneath he is insecure.
• stylish: Fresh new character design - Dante appears younger, but still has his stylish swagger and rock star good looks.

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.
• about: As he well expected, he then came under a barrage of abuse, and was swaggering about, reveling in the attention.

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.
• off: After washing his paws he swaggered off into the bush.

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.