Meaning of scrunge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inauthentic form of grunge music.
   derogatory, slang, uncountable
2. A shot where the wink enters the pot but bounces out again.
3. Scunge; muck; a disgusting and (usually) semiliquid substance.
   countable, uncountable
4. A scruffy and impoverished individual.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] Sun to Sun sure gives the current crop of jingle-jangle scrunge bands the kick in the ass they deserve.”

“Taking the nineteen-pound white Persian into her lap, she kissed his nose, then wiped her lips free of any lingering kitty scrunge with the back of her hand.”

“That store, by the way, like most else in Mala Noche, is a scruffy den of half-glimpsed scrunge.”

“In terms of laboratory research, however, a small error must have crept in, because the resulting pig, by its format and its tendency to mess and stench, surpassed even a scientist's gloomiest dreams of a dinosaur submerged in Jurassic scrunge.”

“Other existing films, however, show how funny Mabel could be with Chaplin when she played a scrungy fishwife equal in size and scrunge to his drunken tramp.”

“Although she had spent a full decade and a half of her life doing exactly nothing but look for a man, she still had not found one, not one, in any case, that she ever spoke about with approval, having dated mainly parking attendants, bike messengers with rings in their ears, large-ball bowlers, tarot therapists, protohominids, moral bindlestiffs, sad scrunges, strangers on trains, and, the way he got it, more than a man or two in the shadowy doorways of Point Barrios or Tapachula, Guatemala.”

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