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Forage about in an effort to obtain something at no cost, as in We scrounged around their kitchen looking for a snack . It derives from the dialectal scrunge , “steal.” [ Colloquial ; c. 1900]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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