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Verb: scrounge  skrawnj
  1. Collect or look around for (food)
    - forage
     
  2. Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
    "he is always scrounging cigarettes from his friends";
    - schnorr, shnorr, cadge [informal]

Derived forms: scrounged, scrounging, scrounges

Type of: beg, hunt, hunt down, run, track down

Encyclopedia: Scrounge