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- noun Plural form of
moocher .
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Examples
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Popular conservative writer Michelle Malkin called the gathered Atlanta crowd "moochers" and called Section 8 a "welfare-state relic."
Angela Glover Blackwell: Are We Seeing the Same America? 2010
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Interesting in many respects, but then she mentioned that she was conservative because she didn't like all the people here who were "moochers" and wanted to preserve what is American about American culture.
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There's a hatred toward "moochers" and "parasites" - the Tea Party movement, which is mainly a bunch of pissed off suburban white people whining about minorities consuming social services, describes the battle as being between "water-carriers" and "water-drinkers".
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My take is that the "moochers" Bill is alluding to is not the poor, as you have taken it, but rather those in the financial system, begging for money from the government / system / taxpayers / productive members of society (ie most of us!).
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My guess it's the only way to make sure her money is soent on wise choices and not handed out to "moochers", if ya know what I mean.
X17 Online 2008
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He said he would stop the motor of the world, and he did -- ideologically -- by going on strike against the moochers and looters who demand payment for pull.
Michael Shermer: Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't Michael Shermer 2011
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“People who think this country has the money to pay for another round of entitlements are either deluded, moochers, or just smegmatic morons.”
Think Progress » Pete Sessions Agrees That ‘Deem And Pass’ Is Legitimate 2010
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People who think this country has the money to pay for another round of entitlements are either deluded, moochers, or just smegmatic morons.
Think Progress » Pete Sessions Agrees That ‘Deem And Pass’ Is Legitimate 2010
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Unproductive citizens of the welfare state, whom Ms. Rand dubbed "parasites," "looters" and "moochers," lobbied politicians to regulate businesses, confiscate wealth and destroy productivity.
Call It 'Atlas Snubbed' Al Lewis 2011
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He said he would stop the motor of the world, and he did -- ideologically -- by going on strike against the moochers and looters who demand payment for pull.
Michael Shermer: Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't Michael Shermer 2011
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