The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrouge
Scrouge \Scrouge\, v. t. [Etymol. uncertain.] To crowd; to squeeze. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Wiktionary
scrouge
vb. (context UK dialect and US colloquial English) To crowd; to squeeze.
Usage examples of "scrouge".
He was barefooted, his eyes were scrouged up tight and he kept opening them and blinking them and closing them again.