tv. to get someone or something somehow. : I scrounged a doctor up in the middle of the night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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scrounge up
Find or round up something, as in I'll have to scrounge up another microphone for today's speaker. [Colloquial; c. 1900]