mooch

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  1. transitive verb To obtain or try to obtain by begging; cadge. See Synonyms at cadge.
  2. transitive verb To steal; filch.
  3. intransitive verb To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge: lived by mooching off friends.
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  • Do you think you can spend your life riding motorcycles around town, dressing up tough, crashing parties, picking fights with strangers on the basis of who they hang out with, and eating whatever you can mooch or browbeat out of someone? —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • You can't just mooch, and panhandle, and suck all the… the sustenance out of life. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • "We all called him a mooch, but it was always for a good cause, and we always bought the tickets," he said.
  • They can physically watch you pay them instead of looking like a mooch and saying, "Oh, I promise I'll pay you back". —  Money Crashers
  • But here was a new trick: a morning mooch, urban at that, and one that would finish with me at work. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
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  1. Middle English mowchen, probably from Old French muchier, to hide, skulk.
 

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