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Examples of scrounge
scrounge
She finds occasional work but must scrounge for food scraps at a nearby market.
From the dispatch.com
Philpott was always on the dole, never looking for a job, always on the scrounge.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The park itself, however, is gated, so they can't come in to scrounge for parking.
From the latimes.com
Another option is to scrounge every last drop of oil and gas from existing fields.
From the economist.com
What is sure is that Cubans struggle each day to scrounge food for their families.
From the time.com
This sets him on a frantic flight through the city trying to scrounge up cash.
From the latimes.com
Slashgear managed to scrounge one up, and have done the dirty deed with haste.
From the techcrunch.com
I scrounge around town looking for great bargains so I can tell you all about them.
From the kansas.com
So many other singers from his generation scrounge for gigs or have given up.
From the bostonherald.com
- Collect or look around for (food)
- Schnorr: obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends"
- Scrounge is an Autobot from the Marvel Comics Transformers series. His alternate mode was some sort of Cybertronian unicycle (or, simply, a wheel).
- Someone who scrounges; a scrounger; To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean; To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another
- (scrounging) looking for scraps of food or abandoned materials
- The procurement of a needed item through irregular or illegal means.
- To forage or trade for needed supplies and equipment; as distinguished from "borrow without repayment" (theft) by employing barter economy of exchanged goods and services. See CUMSHAW, BEGGING BOWL, SOUVENIR; compare MIDNIGHT REQUISITION.
- To appropriate, borrow or acquire by doubtful means; derived from "scringe," meaning to search about, rummage or pilfer.
- To try to find something; to scavenge.
