mooch

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  Rhymes: -uːtʃ

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to mooch (third-person singular simple present mooches, present participle mooching, simple past and past participle mooched)

1. To wander around aimlessly.
2. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
   • 1990, p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,

     I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of "Interviewer."

3. (British) To steal or filch.
   • 1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, ch. 16,

     These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist's shop.

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mooch (plural mooches)

1. One who mooches; a moocher.