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    [Verb]  | "scrounge" | \ ˈskrau̇nj \


    1: steal, swipe

    2: to get as needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing

    3: finagle, wheedle —often used with up


    Origin: circa 1909 ;

     Alteration of English dialect scrunge to wander about idly;

    [Verb]  | "scrounging" 


    1: to get with great difficulty;


      * e.g., " ... scrounged up the money to pay his dental bills "



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    [Verb]  | "scrounge" 


    1: to get with great difficulty;


      * e.g., " ... scrounged up the money to pay his dental bills "



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     [ "Scrounge" ]

    1: to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it:

      * e.g.,  ... "Lets just show up at Deans with no money and just scrounge up as much weed as we can get." 

     [ "Scrounging" ]

    1: British slang for obtaining goods and services without having to pay for them. The word can be used in two rather different ways:

      * e.g.,  ... 1 “I see Jan’s mumping drinks again.” “What a scrounging old fart she is.” 


     [ "Scrounging" ]

    2: 1 If it is for personal advantage then the word has certain negative implications, that the person doing the scrounging is not wholly trustworthy;

      * e.g.,  ... 2 “How did you get the job finished so quickly? “Johnny went out scrounging and brought back some brand new 2 x 1 someone had dumped in a skip.” 


     [ "Scrounging" ]

    3: 2 If it is to further a project at work or to obtain goods, materials or money for a charity then there can be a certain amount of admiration.

     [ "Scrounging" ]

    1: British slang for obtaining goods or services without having to pay for them. This can be for personal advantage or to further a project or piece of work; it can also be to obtain goods, materials or money for a charitable organisation.

      * e.g.,  ... How did you get the job finished so quickly? 

     [ "The Scrounge" ]

    1: A militant offshoot of The Lounge forums. No one can quite say why it was formed, but it is strictly a mong free zone.

      * e.g.,  ... The Scrounge, it's got to be better than work. 

     [ "scrounge" ]

    1: To obtain something by means of clever and resourceful investigation and surreptitious action. The careful and prudent scrounger never reveals his sources, or whether the scrounged object was stolen or merely liberated from its surroundings.

      * e.g.,  ... The Captain sent Sergeant Bates out to scrounge for a camera and some film. 


     [ "scrounge" ]

    2: A scrounger is an important and valued person in prison camps, jails, and college dormatories.

     [ "Scrounging" ]

    1: The act or process of looking for weed anywhere and everywhere.

      * e.g.,  ... I ran out of weed so i was Scrounging throught my pockets and my car and found about a gram. 

     [ "Scrounging" ]

    1: The act of scavenging crumbs off the floor of a Hilton Hotel lounge because you couldnt afford breakfast.

      * e.g.,  ... Ever heard of a complimentory breakfast Paris? Fucking skank bitch. Scrounging. Breakfast of champions. 

     [ "Scrounge" ]

    1: someone who mooches everything always

      * e.g.,  ... Alex Glatt is a scrounge 

     [ "Scrounge" ]

    1: Late night women at the bar. Ie woman who are always there for last call and down to poke.

      * e.g.,  ... Shit, bar is about to close, let’s stop by skybar and try to get some scrounge. 

     [ "scrounge" ]

    1: Dirty, with White Trash tendencies. Can be seen in large groups smelling, chaseing ugly girls around, and wrestling. Also watches Nascar.

      * e.g.,  ... Randal Goins is a huge dirty scrounge! 

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