verb (informal)
1 [V+adv./prep.] (BrE) to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much:
He's happy to mooch around the house all day. * We had coffee then mooched down to the beach.
2 ~ (sth) (off sb) (AmE) to get money, food, etc. from sb else instead of paying for it yourself:
[V] He's always mooching off his friends. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for mooch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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