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SCROUGE
Etymology
Verb
scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present participle scrouging, simple past and past participle scrouged)
(UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
Anagrams
• scourge
Source: Wiktionary
Scrouge, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: To crowd; to squeeze. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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