transitive. To obtain wrongfully.

transitive. To trouble or harass by exacting free quarters and maintenance; to live upon. Obsolete.

transitive. To obtain by cunning or by sponging. Also to shirk up. Obsolete. Cf. shark, v.1 2.

To get from another in a mean or parasitic manner. Also with up.

transitive. To obtain slyly.

slang. transitive. To scrounge, cadge (money, food, goods, etc.); to beg (a person) for something; to work (a place) by begging or scrounging.

transitive. To obtain by duplicity or blandishment. rare.

transitive. To scrounge, steal; to requisition. Cf. hot stuff, n. 3.

transitive. To appropriate; to acquire by irregular means, by stealth, or by begging; to ‘pinch’, to ‘cadge’.

transitive and intransitive. To borrow (without any intention of returning); to scrounge. Australian slang.

transitive. To take from a person without giving anything in return; to ‘cadge’. Frequently with off, from.

transitive. colloquial (originally Military slang). To acquire deviously or illicitly. Now rare.

intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on. Also transitive, to cadge or scrounge.