scrouge
Verb
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Verb
scrouge (scrouges, present participle scrouging; past and past participle scrouged)
- (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.
- Russian: толпи́ться
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