mooch

verb \ ˈmüch \

|Updated on: 3 Aug 2018

Examples: mooch in a Sentence

Definition of mooch

intransitive verb

1 : to wander aimlessly : amble; also : sneak

2 : beg, sponge

transitive verb

1 : to take surreptitiously : steal

2 : beg, sponge

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moocher

noun

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Examples of mooch in a Sentence

he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way
I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.

Recent Examples of mooch from the Web

Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his very first night on Alaska soil.

— mark adams, New York Times, "A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage," 21 May 2018
Most wedding crashers will mooch a couple glasses of wine and maybe an appetizer.

— danielle garrand, CBS News, "Wedding crasher steals newlywed's gifts, evades police," 3 June 2018
This idea, that American allies are mooching off the United States, has political as well as economic implications.

— zack beauchamp, Vox, "Why Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs on US allies are so dangerous," 31 May 2018
With his two gun dogs mooching before a wood fire, Wood betrays a certain weariness of the Beaminster rumor mill, which never stops turning.

— david usborne, Town & Country, "The Mysterious Case of the Parnham House Fire," 29 May 2018
Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his first night on Alaska soil.

— Anchorage Daily News, "A DIY trip through Alaska’s Inside Passage," 26 May 2018
This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.

— amy dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Moocher neighbors need solid boundaries," 7 May 2018
This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.

— amy dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, "Family members’ mooching now hits close to home," 7 May 2018
This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.

— amy dickinson, Detroit Free Press, "Moocher neighbors need solid boundaries," 7 May 2018

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