0 present participle of rummage
1 to search for something by moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them:
Hem of the long robe gliding, a rummaging in cabinets too high for the kids to reach.
For instance, if the police are looking for stolen video recorders, they cannot go rummaging through correspondence and documents.
That saved us rummaging on the floor in the piles of paperwork to find the relevant document.
If a police officer applies for a warrant and finds no evidence, but rummaging through the papers finds evidence of something else, is he entitled to use that evidence?
To make ends meet he began rummaging through garbage and junk in the neighborhood to sell at the local swap meet.
Dumpster diving is not, however, limited to rummaging for food.
They spend their days rummaging in dumps looking for items that can be sold for money.
The album's title comes from the band's tour manager of the time, who would often spend afternoons rummaging thrift stores and purchasing strange memorabilia.
