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What (who) is mooch - definition
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Mooching; Mooch (disambiguation); Mooche
mooch
(mooches, mooching, mooched)
• mooch around
If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose. (in BRIT, also use mooch about
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Andrew was left to mooch around the house on his own...
He was awake at 3am, mooching about in the darkness.
= wander around
PHRASAL VERB: V P n, V P
mooch
1) Moocher, someone who wanderers around shopping centres aimlessly.
Let's mooch today.
2) Moocher. Someone who always takes and never gives back.
He's the classic mooch. Never buys his own beer or cigarettes.
Let's mooch today.
2) Moocher. Someone who always takes and never gives back.
He's the classic mooch. Never buys his own beer or cigarettes.
mooch
v. (slang) (AE)
1) (D; tr.) ('to beg for') to mooch from (he mooched a cigarette from me)
2) (d; intr.) ('to sponge') to mooch off of, on (to mooch on one's friends)
Examples of use of mooch
1. Police said his brothers managed to extricate themselves but Abu Mooch was swept out to sea.
2. Several of the mobsters involved, including Louie "The Mooch" Eboli, are now dead.
3. I was instructed to spend the day as a tourist in my own city, mooch around the Trocadero, queue for Madame Tussauds, and feast on Garfunkelss salad bar.
4. She recently told the daughter of a mooch that she ought to leave her father to his bottomless debt, just as the woman‘s mother had done.
5. Ahmed Abu Mooch, 1', of Baka al–Gharbiya, went to what is known as the Aqueduct Beach near Caesarea on Friday and went swimming in the sea with two of his brothers and got into difficulties.