Verb 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.
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Where teens mooch away afternoons savoring their content-free existence. Alex Beam, WSJ, 10 June 2022 And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples’ accounts, are partly to blame. Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022 Just mooch off your neighbor's vacuum and clean up the smaller messes with this awesome OXO dustpan. Gear Team, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021 Long story short: Costco memberships start at $60, so your time mooching off its food court for free could be running out.cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020 Even a baby left to itself on the dungy farmyard ground, with cows mooching around, seems O.K.Hatidze, typically, welcomes these intruders and befriends the young. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019 Over time, Koonin argues, the parasitic genetic elements remained unable to replicate on their own and evolved into modern-day viruses that mooch off their cellular hosts.Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014 In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can’t exist.Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014 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, 21 May 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk