scrounge

Object

• lift: Having managed to scrounge a lift off Dan from Xms3, who are also on the bill tonight, I was somewhat early.
• money: We went for lunch in town ( had managed to scrounge some money from Steve during the morning!
• food: She has come down from up the road to the Silver Lounge to scrounge food from the old boys.
• bit: After that I went and scrounged a bit of baccy for the night.
• cigarette: Of course even the best mates won't let you scrounge cigarettes for long for free.
• cup: However, I was able to scrounge cups of ( real!

Modifying Another Word

together: This meant going to a local café and scrounging together some money for an egg roll.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: It was nice not having to scrounge around for food.
• off: I have been forced to scrounge off my 76-year-old mother who is on state benefits.
• up: He later switched to private practice, handling drug cases and whatever else he could scrounge up.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Just as food scrounged off some poor bloke's plate is therefore calorie-free, shopping for " reduced " items is positively virtuous.
• up: This came about a year after the software's user community scrounged up the fee to file for a trademark for their beloved filter.

Used with why or when

what: We set off down a friendly little stream passage with Mark in the middle scrounging what little light spilled from the rest of us.

Particle object:

state: It's so nebulous a way of making money that it may as well be scrounging off the state.