scrounge

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scrounge, v. & n. colloq.
--v.
1 tr. (also absol.) obtain (things) illicitly or by cadging.
2 intr. search about to find something at no cost.
--n. an act of scrounging.

Idiom

on the scrounge engaged in scrounging.

Derivative

scrounger n.

Etymology

var. of dial. scrunge steal

THESAURUS

scrounge

abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, beg, boost, borrow, bum, cadge, cadger, come up with, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, ferret out, filch, freeload, freeloader, hit, hit up, hook, importune, lift, make off with, mooch, nip, nose out, palm, panhandle, parasite, pass the hat, pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrape together, scrape up, scrounger, seek out, shoplift, smell out, snare, snatch, snitch, sponger, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, touch, walk off with