| Definitions | | mooch |
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noun
- One who mooches; a moocher.
verb (mooch, es)
- To wander around aimlessly.
- To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
- 1990, p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
- :I managed to my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of "Interviewer."
- To steal or filch.
- 1922, w:J._S._Fletcher, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, ch. 16,
- :These chaps that about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist's shop.
- (context, Brummie slang) To stroll or peruse.
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