scrounge

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.

   “scrounge for food”

   “Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.”

   “Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.”

   “For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.”

   “The booty bandits, who craved sex with the weaker inmates, and the merchants, rich with scrounged or stolen items who kept safe through an uncanny craft to barter anything, followed.”

2. (intransitive)To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.

   “As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.”

noun

1. Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
2. An act of scrounging; a trip taken for the purpose of scrounging.

   “"Still, it's not much good sending you two off on a medical supplies scrounge. What about food and general stores? Suit you?"”