mooch
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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
My husband is wavering, but I think it's totally unnecessary and I don't want to spend my vacation feeling like a mooch.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 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
Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
Yes, they’re mooches and hypocrites, but—as my colleague Ben Mathis-Lilley has written—maybe hypocrisy is better than the alternative.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2019
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
Babylon mooches wearily along with a red nose dreaming in the sun, and Gomorrah leans against an ash can.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
In retirement, I pulled it out, mooched a half-bushel of organic soybeans from an Iowa farmer friend and launched into tofu-making again.
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
Get ready for next summer though, to mooch and be mooched upon.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 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
He was often poor, always mooching, rarely gainfully employed for long.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
“I can throw forks because this is our father’s house, my father’s house,” prompting Lee to point out that Mikey is living in the house with his mother, who he’s mooching off of financially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
Radio listeners learn the difference between downrigging and motor mooching.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
He had little shame over mooching off his uncle and even less about his useless college degree.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
