Meaning

(music, slang, derogatory) An inauthentic form of grunge music..

Definitions by Sense

1. (music, slang, derogatory) An inauthentic form of grunge music.
2. (tiddlywinks) A shot where the wink enters the pot but bounces out again.
3. To scour (search) desperately for resources such as food or equipment.
4. To squeeze; to scrunch.
5. Scunge; muck; a disgusting and (usually) semiliquid substance.
6. A scruffy and impoverished individual.
7. To make or become scrungy.

Example Sentences

[…] Sun to Sun sure gives the current crop of jingle-jangle scrunge bands the kick in the ass they deserve.

Hey, wait for me while I scrunge the breakroom.

For myself, I scrunged a lift in a handsome car to Swiss Cottage and proceeded to buy a camp bed, which, owing to strike demands, Selfridge's were unable to supply.

I was still at Kitt Peak at the time and I scrunged around to find one.

In the Fifties — in the far past, let us say — you had to scrunge for money for arts projects, unless you were exceptionally well connected: you courted individual patrons, if you had the knack; you married well, or well enough, as some poets still do; you "did without", you "saved" and then went broke.

I feels th' coal scrunge as I come down an' the exhaust steam hisses as we strikes.

To bring his head somewhere down near hers, he slid down and scrunged his bony knees to one side and beneath the music rack on the pew ahead.

He goes to the back room and scrunges into the corner.

Word Forms

• scrunges
• scrunging
• scrunged

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Use scrunge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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