scrouge
Verb

scrouge (scrouges, present participle scrouging; past and past participle scrouged)

  1. (UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
    • Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look […]
    • 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics
      I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
    • 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)
      We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
Translations
  • Russian: толпи́ться



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