Meaning of Mooch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An aimless stroll.
   UK, colloquial
2. Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
   US, colloquial, humorous, slang
3. One who mooches; a moocher.
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.”

“At the secondary school where I normally work as a librarian, I take key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”. We undull our senses.”

“"No! I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time! I'm going to London for a few days."”

“If we take Scaramucci’s 10-day figure to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have doomed a lesser man.”

“Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew J. Moscato was accurate.”

“I understand it's her job. But I would point out to people that Stephanie has lasted way more “Mooches” than me.”

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