scrouge

verb

1. (UK, US, colloquial, dialectal, transitive)To crowd; to squeeze.

   “Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]”

   “I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.”

   “We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.”