freegan
/ˈfɹiːɡən/noun
freegan is a noun meaning “A person who salvages and consumes food that has been discarded, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism by…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-G-A-N, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of freegan is freegans.
What does freegan mean?
noun
- 1
A person who salvages and consumes food that has been discarded, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism by means of waste reduction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce freegan?
- UK /ˈfɹiːɡən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of freegan
- freegans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freegan?
Freegan appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Freegan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who uses thrown-out items:
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Where does freegan come from?
Blend of free + vegan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).