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mooch
noun- a person who gives his money to swindlers, a dupe US, 1927
- If you get the right rhythm you can work it out even if the mooch is awake. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 45, 1953
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 263, 1962
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 23, 1985: “Terminology”
- Anyone who succumbs to a sales pitch–due to the hot stuff or a phone call–becomes, in the yaks’ slang, a mooch. — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops, p. 132, 1988
- Hey, sweetheart, let me handle my end of it. How I get this mooch to cooperate is my business. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 140, 1997
- in the car sales business, a customer who thinks that with arithmetic skills, a calculator and his sharp mind he can outsmart the salesman US
- — American Speech, p. 312, Autumn-Winter 1975: “The jargon of car salesmen”
- — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops: Wall Street Slang, p. 133, 1988
- a freeloader US
An abbreviation of MOOCHER- My introduction to this woman came about through an old English mooch and drunk. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 110, 7 October 1955
▶ on the mooch
alert for any chance to beg or borrow UK, 1864- An exiled South American gigolo living on the mooch from night club to night club was invariably “the Agentinian cattle baron.” — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 130, 1956
▶ the mooch
idling, scrounging, skulking UK, 1859- [Y]ou went on the mooch with Paddy Clohessy. Your mother is going to kill you[.] — Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes, p. 163, 1999
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