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mooch

noun [S]
 
 
/muːtʃ/ informal

Definition

a period of time spent walking around slowly and without much purpose: I'm going for a mooch round the shops (= to look at what is there, not to buy a particular thing).Useless and futile
(Definition of mooch noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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