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scrumping

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go scrumping

old-fashioned To pilfer or steal (something) from an orchard, typically apples. Primarily heard in UK. We used to go scrumping all the time. Boy, Master Bishop's orchards always had the best apples. I was so poor at one point that I only survived by going scrumping as I traveled the countryside. A: "Where did you get all these apples? Please tell me you didn't go scrumping again." B: "OK, then I'll just say that it would be best for us to get off this man's property now."
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scrump

1. old-fashioned To pilfer or steal (something) from an orchard, typically apples. Primarily heard in UK. I told you—if I caught you scrumping apples from Master Bishop's orchards again, I would have the bailiff take you away! I was so poor at one point that I only survived by scrumping apples as I traveled the countryside.
2. slang To have sex (with someone or each other). He garnered a bit of a reputation for himself with the way he's been scrumping all over town. There are rumors floating around that the boss is scrumping her new secretary.
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scrump

(skrəmp)
tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Usually objectionable.) The movie showed a scene of some woman scrumping her lover.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Infused with the joys of spring, we dirndl damsels, resembling the cast of The Sound of Music, performed warm-up exercises, waving our arms in front crawl swimming-style and scrumping imaginary Infused with the joys of spring, we dirndl damsels, resembling the cast of The Sound of Music, performed warm-up exercises, waving our arms in front crawl swimming-style and scrumping imaginary apples in the orchard.
He was scrumping, something I did as boy during those days of Coxes Orange Pippins and Victoria plums; a handful of fun back then but theft if committed wholesale.
In fact, it's serummy--scrumptious-yummy--not to be confused with Scrumpy, a sometimes rock-hard alcoholic cider, named from "scrumping," the act of stealing apples, which, if they're poxy little rejects, are called "scrimps."
He said he and Uncle Geoffrey would go "scrumping" for fun and come home with armfuls of Apples and Blackberries.
Ronnie says: "We used to go sledging in the winter time and used to go scrumping for apples during the war."
While your sagacious and erudite advisors urged caution and restraint and a huge part of the British electorate cried out for further international intervention before invasion, you and your mate George blundered clumsily into all out war, with all the political finesse of a pair of high spirited short trousered schoolboys on a scrumping expedition in a private orchard.
"He should be out scrumping apples and having more fun but he doesn't like leaving us.
The youngsters were never averse to a bit of mischief, be it scrumping apples, or collecting cigarette butts for German prisoners of war.
Having never known his Scots father, the young Suggs - real name Graham McPherson - would spend long summer afternoons shooting rats and scrumping apples with his three cousins, even attending the local grammar school, where he says he did well in class and started sounding like one of the locals.
'Ninety per cent of them,' he says, 'are meant to have a figure somewhere.' The second strand at the Nottingham show is based around the painting Scrumping (2013; Fig.
Now this raises a question about the writers of the New Testament because the New Testament clearly teaches that sin entered the universe when Eve decided to go scrumping.
He wants to bring back public hanging, specifically for apple scrumping, instigate a new language where the phrase "get off my tractor" is both a greeting, threat and invitation to sexual coupling, and introduce a PS50 toll for those driving through our close-knit community.
Infused with the joys of spring, we dirndl damsels, resembling the cast of The Sound of Music, performed warm-up exercises, waving our arms in front crawl swimming-style and scrumping infused with the joys of spring, we dirndl damsels, resembling the cast of The Sound of Music, performed warm-up exercises, waving our arms in front crawl swimming-style and scrumping apples in the orchard.
The fracture of my left leg was due to a too-high jump out of an apple tree where I and a friend had been "scrumping".
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