scrooch down

Bullets failed to stop them: conductors would draw the window blinds and tell passengers to scrooch down away from the glass.

He scrooch down dis a way, so he kin look in de suller." said Julius, bending forward until his back was nearly on a level with the gunwales of the boat, "an' I whack him behine de ear, an' he drap so quick he don't know what hit him.

When they put out a hand to feel her condition she would "scrooch" down her back, or bend this way or that, as if the hand were a branding iron.

“Oh,” sez he, “I mean to do it sly; I could scrooch down and pretend to be fixin’ my shues.”

“I don’t believe it,” sez he; “nobody loves to scrooch down flat with their legs under ’em numb as sticks.”