Swag

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. Promotional merchandise such as stickers, shirts, hoodies, socks, and notebooks distributed by companies or projects at events and online. In tech culture, swag is both branding and a social signal of belonging to particular communities or ecosystems.

    In plain English: Free branded items like shirts and stickers given out by companies or communities.

    Example: "The best part of the conference badge line was the table full of weird open source swag."

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