See scav on Wiktionary
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"form": "scavs",
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},
{
"form": "scavving",
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"ref": "2011, Philip Webb, Six Days, page 36:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2021, Sebastian de Souza, Kid: A History of The Future:",
"text": "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.",
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"To scavenge; to steal."
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"(UK, transitive) To scavenge; to steal."
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