Meanings
verbscav (third-person singular simple present scavs, present participle scavving, simple past and past participle scavved)
present singular third person scavs · participle present scavving · participle past scavved · past scavved
- UKtransitiveTo 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 361 more example
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
Rhymes & wordplay
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APA
scav. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scav
MLA
“scav.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scav. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scav,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scav.
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