scrouge
(UK, dialect, and, US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, dialect, and, US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
Origin: . Possibly related to shrug. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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