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US
/ˈskɹaʊndʒ/
]
[ UK /skɹˈaʊndʒ/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈaʊndʒ/ ]
VERB
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obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends - collect or look around for (food)
How To Use scrounge In A Sentence
- It happened to someone else when it was revealed that he hadn't been taking showers, and the Commander had pronounced him a "scrounge". Autism Hub
- She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the notice up with.
- Families crowd into tiny, ramshackle homes and scrounge for food as well as soap, paper and other basics.
- Is it to shame scroungers or make them rich fast? The Sun
- I will have a scrounge around today and see if I can find any more.
- On that occasion she relentlessly scrounged, albeit in a sweetly demure fashion, cigarettes from all and sundry, suggesting a certain profligacy towards other people's property.
- That brother of yours is always on the scrounge.
- Well, as it's one of the things is 'consistancy' and seeing as you have the ability to volunteer all over the place but not work I call into question everything you have to say on the subject as you're a scrounger, playing the system, who could work but chooses not to, and as such should be held to account at every opportunity. Army Rumour Service
- He thinks that people who receive state benefits are scroungers.
- She scrounged together the money, but then saw the most gorgeous pair of boots on sale - a steal at $400.