scrounge
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scrounge (third-person singular simple present scrounges, present participle scrounging, simple past and past participle scrounged)
- To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
- As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.
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To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean
To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another
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scrounge (plural scrounges)
- Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
