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Cur's gone (anag) — beg
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scrounge
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. collect or look around for (food) [syn: forage ] obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends" [syn: schnorr , shnorr , cadge ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Nigel scrounged a drink off us before we left. ▪ We managed to scrounge some cigarettes because we had no money left. ▪ When I was a kid I never had enough money for the bus, so I had to scrounge . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of scrounge.
Down in Bursa the Greek troops scrounged for food, caroused, and shot up another mosque.
Once in Houston, he scrounged a monorail pass and went fight into the metroplex, eventually finding his way to the Astradyne corporate headquarters.
He scrounged in a pocket, untangled one of the bills Murrell had given him and handed it across to her.
Make room for the horniest man after horndog women that he birddogged and scrounged for.
Then she returned to scrounging happily in the sand and occasional patches of sea slime that covered the intertidal zone.
As I discovered during my earlier trip alone along the Jalapa road, I knew little of how to scrounge for food or find shelter in the wilds.
Relentlessly scrounging resources and working nonstop, the remaining machines had rebuilt and reasserted their complete control over the planet in less than a year, like an inexorable tide erasing footprints on a beach.
At the same time he realized exactly where in the hallway he was: standing in front of the rickrack cabinet from which he had scrounged the extension cord.
Since most of his troops were scrounging ammunition, patching wounds and preparing for the next heavy assault they did not have time to deal with harassment.
That meant that the chances of her finding a parking space, scrounging around the backseat for an umbrella, getting out of the car and walking me all the way to the studio door were exactly nil.
Pursuits like scrounging around in the freshly unfrozen ground to find the first buds of spring for her collection.
But Lieutenant Rossi was not too proud to do some scrounging and nailing, if it would give him a ceiling.
MacMillan was not over endowed with brains, but he knew how to keep his mouth shut, and there was no question about his scrounging ability.
When he thought about it, he realized that he should have known that if MacMillan could scrounge entire helicopters, he would have no trouble scrounging parts to keep them flying.
I assure him irritably, scrounging around for my personal things and restoring them to semiprivacy under the eyes of the crowd.