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"Cumshaw": In the Coast Guard, at least (this may be an incident of perpetual under-funding), the commonest definition of "cumshaw" verb is pretty much identical to your first definition of "scrounge" verb. To cumshaw is to get by irregular means--exchanging favors, calling in debts, cutting corners with procurement--what an individual Coastie, a group, a cutter, or the like should be able to get by regular ones.
The Chief cumshawed a spare prop for the 41-footer.
cumshaw by Paddy-Whacks September 7, 2009
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International seagoing term for petty graft or secret commissions.
He's a real cumshaw artist. Got all this for a pack of butts.
cumshaw by Donnie Gene Howard September 6, 2006
A derogatory name for Comcast, used in context with an experience of bad customer service or service in general.
Ugh... gotta call Comshaft today to get someone to come out and fix our cable box.
Comshaft by JLAX613 July 24, 2009
1. adj. silly or nonsensical;
2. adj. with lack of fashion sense;
3. verb. to fuck someone so hard, they start revealing secrets;
1. A dog wearing a sweater? That's so corshaw!
2. Joe, that top is so corshaw...
3. I'm going to corshaw what I need to know right out of you!
corshaw by NerezzaConvoca February 20, 2010