All scrounge synonyms
scrounge
S s verb scrounge
- forage — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- call on — If you call on someone to do something or call upon them to do it, you say publicly that you want them to do it.
- hit up — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- copping — the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- leeched — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- bummed — depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- filch — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hawked — a noisy effort to clear the throat.
- copped — to catch; nab.
- moonlighting — the light of the moon.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- heisting — a robbery or holdup: Four men were involved in the armored car heist.
- beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
- cadge — If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
- burgle — If a building is burgled, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
- hawking — to make an effort to raise phlegm from the throat; clear the throat noisily.
- mendicate — (ambitransitive) To beg.
- mooch — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
- burgled — simple past tense and past participle of burgle.
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search