1. to ask for or obtain something from someone without paying or giving anything in return
Usage: informal
2. to wander about aimlessly
Usage: informal

1. a person who habitually asks for things from others without paying
Usage: informal

Examples

• He always mooches cigarettes from his friends.
• Stop mooching off your parents and get a job.
• She mooched around the mall all afternoon.
• The teenagers were mooching outside the convenience store.
• Don’t be such a mooch – buy your own lunch.
• That mooch never pays for anything when we go out.
• I caught him trying to mooch some food from the kitchen.