Definition of mooch
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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
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Most wedding crashers will mooch a couple glasses of wine and maybe an appetizer.
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This idea, that American allies are mooching off the United States, has political as well as economic implications.
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With his two gun dogs mooching before a wood fire, Wood betrays a certain weariness of the Beaminster rumor mill, which never stops turning.
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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.
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This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.
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This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.
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This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.
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The town’s two suspension bridges, wide enough for a few people, are clogged with Indians in saris, Westerners in harem pants, honking motorbikes, dung-dropping cows and mooching monkeys.
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Origin and Etymology of mooch
probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk
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First Known Use: 1851
in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
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MOOCH Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of mooch for English Language Learners
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: to ask for and get things from other people without paying for them or doing anything for them
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