verb
- asking for or obtaining things from others without paying or giving anything in return
- wandering around aimlessly or loitering
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Examples
- He’s always mooching food from his coworkers.
- Stop mooching off your parents and get a job.
- She was mooching around the mall with nothing to do.
- The teenagers were mooching in the park all afternoon.
- I caught him mooching cigarettes from strangers.
- They spent the day mooching through the old bookstore.