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Word: mooched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many assignments, and some unhappy customers toss him into the desert after supergluing a Santa suit to his body (no, this doesn't make more sense when you see it). Without the money for a bus ticket, Jake has to rely on his smooth-talking savvy to mooch enough rides to get him across the country in two days. In the meantime, he must cook up a way to win back his disgruntled girlfriend who gives up on Jake's selfish ways and takes off with Eddie (Adam LaVorgna), class smoothie (grease and all) and Jake's nemesis...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HEEEEERRRRRRRREEEEEE'S JOHNNY | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...other side of the friends versuscigarettes debate, another Smelly Rock smoker hasthe opposite problem. She laments a classic caseof denial: "I go through more cigarettes than Ishould because my boyfriend is a big mooch whothinks that if he doesn't buy his own cigaretteshe's not a smoker and won't get addicted." Onceagain, the first step to recovery is admitting onehas a problem...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: the great equalizer | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...more pride than Bill Cowher. Take the three and run. And the 49ers, who haven't had to care in, like, 9 weeks, are getting two from the Seahawks. WHAT? Despite the very real possibility that everybody knows something L.I. Slim doesn't, he just can't picture Coach Mooch losing this game and risking a playoff letdown in his debut year. The cares: Both DETROIT (without help from Colts or Philly) and the Jets, who are in only with a win. Which makes this one a tough pick . . . Tuna's time is next year. But at 6.5-point dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 12/19/1997 | See Source »

...check for a shipment of cosmetics. Instead of the prize, she began getting calls from other telemarketing firms--one in Utah, one in Louisiana and four more in Las Vegas. The firms belonged to a new breed of con artist, those who regularly buy and sell names for their mooch lists, at prices ranging from $10 for an untested "lead" to $200 for the name of someone who has fallen for a whole series of scams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELDERSCAM | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...elderly are picking up. Senior Sleuths, formed in 1989 by the Florida attorney general's office, deploys 550 people in sting operations to gather evidence against scammers. A.A.R.P. has mounted a reverse boiler-room operation in several states. It phones seniors to warn them that their names appear on mooch lists confiscated by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELDERSCAM | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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