Crossword-Solution: SCROUNGE
We have 26 clues for the answer “SCROUNGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dumpster-dive, say | 1 answer |
| Cadge; mooch | 1 answer |
| Cadge or sponge. | 1 answer |
| Do some dumpster-diving | 1 answer |
| Dumpster-dive | 1 answer |
| Forage for food, say | 1 answer |
| Go foraging | 1 answer |
| Obtain by wheedling | 1 answer |
| Pilfer or mooch | 1 answer |
| Acquire by begging | 2 answers |
| Bum, as a cigarette | 2 answers |
| Get something for nothing | 2 answers |
| Gather with difficulty | 3 answers |
| Pilfer: Slang. | 3 answers |
| finagle | 6 answers |
| Scrape together. | 6 answers |
| Beachcomber | 7 answers |
| Cadge | 10 answers |
| COLLECT OR LOOK AROUND FOR | 11 answers |
| Salvage | 17 answers |
| forage | 24 answers |
| Mooch | 32 answers |
| biter | 39 answers |
| BEG ___ | 42 answers |
| borrow | 43 answers |
| Bum | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCROUNGE (5)
Even though Kotok and the several other hackers helping him on the program had only contempt for the IBM batch-processing mentality that pervaded the machine and the people around it, they had managed to scrounge some late-night time to use it interactively, and had been engaging in an informal battle with the systems programmers on the 704 to see which group would be known as the biggest consumer of computer time.
After a time Hanlon noticed that here, as in most parks, hundreds of native, pigeon-like birds were flying and hopping about, seeking what crumbs they could scrounge from picnickers' lunches, or nuts fed them by interested idlers.
Every man in the team was strictly enjoined to "scrounge" any scrap of wood he could find en route, and it was a common sight to see a driver suddenly hop off his horse, dart across the road triumphantly to seize a stick he had spotted, after which he rushed after his team and scrambled into the saddle again, the horses meanwhile plodding patiently along.
Fed to hogs, made into corn-pone for breakfast back on Earth, and here, on Layard, the staple food crop for a gang of shiftless varmints who still regarded, with some good solid skepticism and round-eyed wonder, this unorthodox idea that one should take the trouble to grow plants to eat rather than go out and scrounge for them.
Maybe you ought to start practicing a little prudence, just to see what it feels like." "I'm that wild ox we used to talk about I like to scrounge.
Quotes with SCROUNGE (3)
I have better things to do.’‘Like what?’He opens one eye and looks at me. ‘Like convince a stubborn girl to admit she’s madly in love with me.’I can’t help but smile.‘So if it’s not a pig farm that you want, what is it?’ he asks. I swallow. ‘How about a safe place to live where we don’t have to scrounge for food or fight for it?’‘It’s yours.’‘That’s it? All I have to do is ask?’‘No. There’s a price for everything.’‘I knew it. What is it?’‘Me.
The thing that drew me to Lafayette as a subject - that he was that rare object of agreement in the ironically named United States - kept me coming back to why that made him unique. Namely, that we the people never agreed on much of anything. Other than a bipartisan consensus on barbecue and Meryl Streep, plus that time in 1942 when everyone from Bing Crosby to Oregonian school children heeded FDR's call to scrounge up rubber for the war effort, disunity is the through line i…
He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now an…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).