What is "scrooched"

Usage examples of "scrooched".

They come up, a-runnin', and I scrooched down behind a bush, and when this rider paused to swing his pony between two trees, I hit him across the small of the back with a thick branch I'd picked up.

He scrooched and scrooched and scrooched it, by his own ad­mission to Monica and me, as though it were responsible not only for the yelling of the smoke alarm, but for all the din outside as well.

Through the stars that spun within my brain I saw a man scrooched down and staring at me.