0 past simple and past participle of cadge --
1 to (try to) get something from someone else without paying for it: --
After graduation, he cadged a ride in an airplane in 1912.
They promised £15 worth of prizes, but they even cadged the prizes from the local shopkeepers, with the result that they put nothing into the pool and took £105 out of it.
It cadged £35,000 worth of obsolete equipment which could be used for its purposes.
He was his own man; he never cadged a vote.
