Definition of "scrump"

scrump

/ˈskɹʌmp/

noun
plural scrumps
1. (dialectal) Anything small or undersized.
2. (dialectal) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
3. (dialectal) A small apple.
verb
third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped
1. (dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
2. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
  Quotations
  (we've all seen trees, and arent Adam and Eve condemned for having gone scrumping?; interestingly a great philosopher recalled Saint Augustine spent a lot of his long life being racked with guilt for having gone scrumping for some pears when he was a boy! ...)
  1994, Edward Bond, Edward Bond Letters, volume 1, page 180
  [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...
  2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12
  Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.
  2006, Richard Dawkins, chapter 7, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 251
3. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
4. (slang, dated) To have sex.