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SCROUGE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
verb (used with or without object) to squeeze; crowd .
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SCROUGE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SCROUGE is crowd, press.
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scrouge - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug. Pronunciation. edit · IPA: /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/. Verb. edit. scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present ...
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scrouge
▪ I. scrouge, n. colloq. or vulgar. (skruːdʒ, skraʊdʒ) Also scrowge. [f. scrouge v.] 1. A crush, squeeze, or crowd.1839 C. Clark J. Noakes cxxiii, Agin these shows, oh, what a scrowge! 1887 C. Keene Let. in Life xii. (1892) 383, I went to the Academy ‘Swarry’ last night—the usual scrouge. 2. U.S. (S...
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scrouge, v. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
scrouge v. ... 1. to encroach on a person's space, to crowd, to push forward in a crowd (cf. scrunch v.). ... 2. to push something out of the way, to squeeze a ...
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scrouge - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
scrouge (skrouj, skro̅o̅j),USA pronunciation v.t., v.i., scrouged, scrouging. to squeeze; crowd. Also, scrooge. blend of, blended ...
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Ebenezer Scrooge
Commentators have suggested that the surname was partly inspired by the word "scrouge", meaning "crowd" or "squeeze". The word was in use from 1820.
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scrouge, v. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb scrouge. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in US ...
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SCROUGE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Definition of 'scrounge around'. scrounge around in American English. to search or forage for something, esp. in a haphazard or disorganized fashion; hunt for.
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SCROUNGE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SCROUNGE is steal, swipe. How to use scrounge in a sentence.
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A.Word.A.Day --scrouge - Wordsmith.org
scrouge ... MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To squeeze, press, or crowd. ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of scruze (to squeeze), a blend of screw + squeeze. Earliest documented ...
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scrooch
scrooch, v. dial. and colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.). (skruːtʃ) Also scrouch. [Dialectal var. of scrouge v., perh. reinforced (in later uses) by crouch v.1; see also scrinch v., scringe v.1 and scrunch v.] 1. intr. = scrouge v. 1 b, c; to crouch or bend. Freq. with down. Also fig.1844 ‘J. Slick’ H...
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City of Echoes
It was shot on the rooftops of downtown LA at night and in the Angeles National Forest by Kenneth Thomas' Scrouge Productions.
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scrouger
ˈscrouger [f. scrouge v. + -er1.] 1. U.S. Anything exceptional in size, capacity, etc.; a ‘bouncer’.1822 Amer. Beacon (Norfolk, Va.) 6 Sept. 4/1 The barge⁓men..are divided into classes, such as Tuscaloosa Roarers, Alabama Screamers, Cahawba Scrougers, and the like gentle names. 1837 Davy Crockett's ...
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