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Definition of mooch verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

mooch

verb

NAmE//mutʃ//

(informal) [intransitive, transitive] mooch (something) (off somebody)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they mooch

he / she / it mooches

past simple mooched

-ing form mooching

to get money, food, etc. from someone else instead of paying for it yourself synonym sponge He's always mooching off his friends.

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