Word: mooch
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...trap-and a bottle of whisky in the boot. One of the Queen's Maids of Honor, meeting John Brown in the castle carrying a basket, once asked him whether the Queen was having her tea out that afternoon. "Weel, yus and nu," he muttered. "She dinna mooch like tay. We take out biscuits and sperruts...
...movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody that he has stereo...
...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...
...Sauvie Island outbreak was stopped by putting almost a pound of antibiotics in every ton of turkey feed. But where the turkeys get the virus remained a mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...
Sometimes a wheedle whacker telephones the wrong mooch. One dynamiter recently tried to give the Russian Injection to the head of the Crime Section, U.S. Department of Justice...