Meaning of Scrounger | Babel Free

Definitions

One who scrounges.

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Examples

“You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for.”

“For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall.”

“Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.”

“Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.”

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