verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sonia is always cadging lifts home and she never offers any money for petrol.
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The two boys moved around the bar, cadging free drinks and cigarettes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
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Any excuse to cadge a drink.
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He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank.
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I used to hang around there on weekends, cadging handouts and running errands and hustling cabs for the swells.
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Is anybody else thinking of going, especially from the Leeds area so I can cadge a lift.
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Never had enough money, was always cadging.
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Poverty hounded the bishop, so he borrowed and cadged like a Franciscan beggar of old.
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Well, the only thing Mike ever cadged was cigarettes.