Scrouge

//skɹaʊd͡ʒ// verb, slang

verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1
To crowd; to squeeze. UK, US, colloquial, dialectal, transitive
"Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]"

Synonyms

scrunch scrunch

Example

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

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.

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