Full Definition of SWAG. 1. : sway 1. 2. a: something (as a decoration) hanging in a curve between two points: festoon b: a suspended cluster (as of evergreen branches). 3. a: goods acquired by unlawful means: loot b: spoils, profits.
Both aloof and sensual, Kim Novak was cast by Hitchcock in Vertigo after original actress, Vera Miles, left due to pregnancy. Novak played the dual role of Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster, who becomes the sole obsession of acrophobic police detective John Scottie Ferguson (Stewart).
Contemporary Examples. 1  In psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen. 2  When, in succession, he made Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963). 3  To bolster my case I told him we should actually call it Pursuito, like Vertigo or psycho.