Meaning of scrouge | Babel Free

Definitions

To crowd; to squeeze.

UK, US, colloquial, dialectal, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]”

“I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.”

“We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.”

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