mooch
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While other dogs might be content to mooch off kitchen droppings, Riley prefers to eat from her own plate of human food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
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
Not sure how to mooch, much less where to borrow a fishing boat?
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
Paddy tells the Question, He didn’t go on the mooch and I didn’t either.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Yes he mooches the scissors to give himself a haircut.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2020
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 Ben Hecht
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
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
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
Lupin certainly seems to know where the cat food aisle is, and a number of photographs show the moggy mooching around the boxes and tins.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
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
Seattle is the birthplace of mooching, a technique for catching salmon that imitates the natural movement of herring.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
I had along simply because I felt funny mooching off Mr. Pignati.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
