the type of parents who love to take your belongings and hide it in random areas, then you have to go on a fucking scavenger hunt to find it. THANKS PARENTS!
"gee thanks mom for being a scavenger parent, sure is a lot of fun dealing with your bullshit."
to be honest scavenger parents suck, they love to take your stuff.
to be honest scavenger parents suck, they love to take your stuff.
by VENIN#5293 September 30, 2020

To walk around putting your foot on the outside of the other foot every step bending your knees. Looking a little skunked.
by Shat daddy June 21, 2012

In Left 4 Dead 2's scavenge mode, a human team who waits for the timer to run out because they know that they can win the round without getting the last can because they were able to get your number of cans in a smaller amount of time.
by smael123 March 31, 2012

Some random broke individual who looks into discarded items (ie trash or stuff left by someone else) and tries to resell the items for a profit.
Look, I found this cellular device from the tenant who vacated this apartment. -How much do you think I could resell it for? I didn't steal it, I'm a scavenger you know...
by VanGear July 4, 2017

A low-income person who trundels a wheelbarrow all around town on Christmas morning and collects the lumps of coal that Santa left in the stockings of all the bratty youngsters, so that he can take it back home and burn it in his stove for heat.
As we all know, Santa is extremely careful about determining who's actually been naughty or nice ("He's makin' a list, and checkin' it twice"), and so quite a significant percentage of the children in any given area will probably receive high-grade anthracite as their Christmas present. A naughty-gift scavenger, therefore, should have little trouble filling up his 'barrow come Christmas Day, since most parents wouldn't want "that dirty black stuff" in their houses, anyway, and thus they would probably be all too happy to be rid of it; about the only families who would likely tell him no would be fellow-indigent folks who themselves would want to use said sooty lumps in their own furnaces.
by QuacksO February 16, 2019

The Defcon Scavenger Hunt is a ridiculously-themed, fast-paced hunt across the city of Las Vegas by a bunch of hackers to prove how people can obtain a million strange things in a single weekend.
This year I participated in the Defcon Scavenger Hunt and talked to tons of new people and almost ended up in prison!
by va1ka September 12, 2015

One who takes or uses whatever is discarded. There may be a few reasons for this, & not all scavengers are homeless. Some do it because they dislike consumerism & refuse to buy into it. Others just scavenge because it's free stuff which would otherwise end up in a landfill or dump, & who want to save money. Other people scavenge because they refuse to pay retail; scavenging is one way they get what they want or need. A dedicated scavenger may dumpster dive & own a pickup truck or other vehicle for the specific purpose of transporting scavenged goods.
by Onionhead01 May 19, 2024
