mooch
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She thinks she has an answer: The friend makes a lot of money and the guy, a struggling medical student, is looking to mooch.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2024
Gifts as simple as surf wax or a ding repair kit can go a long way for surfers — and the other riders they always mooch off of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
No casting is required to mooch — just drop 10-to-30-pound test line, rigged up on an 8.5-to-9.5-foot moderate action rod, to the desired depth, then reel the line back in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
Like all viruses, they take over cells and force them to churn out other copies of themselves, the worst kind of mooch you can imagine.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2021
“All he does is yell. The man has a mean streak. He’s rougher on us than we ever were on all those dogs trying to mooch food out of our dumpster.”
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew Moscato was accurate.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
“Glee” star Darren Criss is plenty creepy and believable as Cunanan, a 27-year-old charlatan and chronic fibber who mooches off the kindness of strangers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2018
In an effort to explain how dogs evolved into the brazen, adorable mooches we know and love, scientists have identified a few genetic mutations that may be behind their friendly personalities.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2017
As a 26-year-old who not only is still on the family cellphone plan but also mooches off my parents’ HBO Go and Netflix accounts—I’m apparently doing this whole emerging adulthood thing wrong.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2015
He mooches off, looking like I'd kicked him, and goes over to the Professor.
From See? by William Ashman
When we had a hankering for tofu, I mooched soybeans from an Illinois farmer friend, cooked them up and formed delectable tofu in a wooden box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Parents dragged their children home from school on sledges, and students mooched their way in and out of brightly-lit malls.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
Dawson’s one taxi was out of commission, so I mooched a ride partway and walked the rest along the Yukon River to the Whitehouse Cabins on the north edge of town.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Still Arsenal mooched sideways for most of the game, probing vaguely.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2020
Kevin wasn't allowed to eat sweets, so he always mooched snacks from everybody's lunchboxes.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
This is not a preying tiger in the Indian jungle - but a happily mooching Dalmatian dog in Dagnam Park, Romford, unknowingly closing in on a days-old fallow deer fawn.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Victor the bear was notorious for mooching meals at Mammoth Lakes campgrounds, but when he crashed a steak and wine dinner, things escalated quickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
We made a lighthearted comment about how the prices for these services are increasing and how they now show ads because so many people are mooching off the accounts of others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
Wong likes mooching because, he says, “it’s easy to pick up for all skill levels but it’s also interesting for all skill levels.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
I had along simply because I felt funny mooching off Mr. Pignati.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
