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scav

/skæv/

scav verb: to scavenge; to steal.

Verb

scav (third-person singular simple present scavs, present participle scavving, simple past and past participle scavved)

  1. (UK, transitive) To scavenge; to steal.
    • Scavving the whole city isn't the way to find it. It's too slow! Don't you see? You have to think to work out where it is.2011, Philip Webb, Six Days, page 36
    • I've got an upright acoustic piano, a Kawai, which I scavved years ago from Ronnie Scott's, an old jazz club on Frith Street.2021, Sebastian de Souza, Kid: A History of The Future

Forms of scav

third-person singular presentscavs
present participlescavving
past participlescavved
pastscavved

Words that rhyme with scav

Questions about scav

What does scav mean?
Scav means to scavenge; to steal.
What part of speech is scav?
Scav is a verb.
How do you pronounce scav?
Scav is pronounced /skæv/.
What is the past tense of scav?
The past tense of scav is scavved.

Words near scav in the dictionary

  1. scaur
  2. scaurie
  3. scauries
  4. scaurs
  5. scaury
  6. scav
  7. scavage
  8. scavaged
  9. scavager
  10. scavagers
  11. scavages

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