(v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kerouac and his friends were still restlessly hitch-hiking across the continent, cadging drinks and borrowing money for a joint, while Carr quietly pursued a career that lasted for more than four decades.
(2) High rail (and bus) fares at peak times add to social exclusion, by barring poorer people from using trains and forcing them into dependence on cars, either by running cars they can't really afford or by cadging lifts from family, friends and neighbours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 7.40pm BST 7.20pm BST Obama camp hits Romney over '47%' comments The Obama campaign has produced a web video hitting Romney for dismissing 47% of Americans as craven spongiforms just looking to cadge the next handout from the producing class.
(4) Or they can lobby ministers privately, cadging 15-minute shards of time and making a case, over and over again.
(5) At Oxford, Crawford was a joint founder of the internationalist poetry magazine Verse and "cadged" poems off the likes of Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Seamus Heaney, who enclosed £50 with his poem to help with production costs: "His generosity was not only in language, but also in actual dosh."
(6) While some celebrated the idea that Spain had cadged billions of euros from Europe for nothing, others worried that it had been forced to crawl to Brussels with a begging bowl.
Cadger
Definition:
(v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster.
(v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging.