cadge

You’ll probably be able to cadge a ticket on the fly at a number of venues; if not, have a snack or a drink or just relax and enjoy the vibe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2019

One recent morning, a man dropped by Mr. Mishurov’s farmyard office to cadge a bucket of corn for his hens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2018

Apparently this individual uses a variety of stories to cadge money, including claims of homelessness or a need to get to some distant city to see family.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2017

I talked to the freshman Ed Town, who would love to cadge a ticket to the playoffs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014

At one point, Kamen recalled, Alvarez tried to cadge more experimentation time from Lawrence by displaying a chart showing a decline in publications by members of the lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012

Fiennes, exuding sulfurous resolve as Hades, cadges some sympathy for a god who is asked to align with Zeus, the younger brother who consigned him to the lower depths.

From Time ● Mar. 29, 2012

To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 1, 2012

He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

In London Society everybody cadges except the millionaires—and they're cadged upon...

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed

The sport also cadged elements from a women's version of basketball featuring player zone restrictions.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

But even those bits are little more than cliches cadged straight from the Carrie Fisher handbook.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2020

His mother had died when he was 10, leaving him with his father, who cadged work as a mechanic.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

During the summer of 1935, John cadged a small grant from the Macy Foundation to travel third class to Berkeley, and presented himself and his mice at the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency told us again of babies cadging small-business loans and long-dead citizens collecting Social Security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The custom dates back more than 150 years, but was stopped in 1909 by the local constabulary, which saw the "straw bears" as a form of "cadging", or begging, for rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

In 1920 he heads to America, cadging an on-deck meeting with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Before he got his band off the ground, he worked as a music journalist, cadging interviews with heroes like David Bowie and the Cure’s Robert Smith, hoping they’ll provide meaningful songwriting advice.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2020

Lawrence had spent a difficult year cadging money from philanthropists and foundations for a proton accelerator, the purpose of which had to be explained to them in the abstract terms of basic science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik