intransitive. To take up free quarters or exact maintenance unjustifiably; to sponge upon others for food or lodging.

figurative. To seek to capture or obtain by artifice; to ‘fish for’.

intransitive. To prowl around looking for food, etc.; to scrounge, to sponge.

slang. intransitive. To sponge on or off a person; to go about scrounging.

intransitive. To seek to obtain by irregular means, as by stealth or begging; to hunt about or rummage (for something).