freeload
to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
to get by freeloading: He freeloaded several meals a week.
Origin of freeload
1Other words from freeload
- freeloader, noun
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How to use freeload in a sentence
If an inspector gets on, he blocks the doors of the bus and anyone freeloading is fined.
‘Stupid Enough to Pay’: Tim Parks’s Italian Rail Adventures | Tim Parks | June 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe last man standing is also the only major U.S. automaker to choose free markets over freeloading.
They can do it because they can, but there's nothing cool about it for a single mom already freeloading on disability.
I plan on spending the pre-Christmas season freeloading off French friends, eating their foie gras, and drinking their champagne.
Only the French Would Be Smug About the Recession | Janine di Giovanni | December 11, 2008 | THE DAILY BEASTLet's say you don't think of scrounging off food stores or working out a way of freeloading or hitting soup lines.
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British Dictionary definitions for freeload
/ (ˈfriːˌləʊd) /
(intr) slang to act as a freeloader; sponge
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