freeload

[free-lohd, -lohd]

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verb (used without object) Informal.

to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.

verb (used with object)

to get by freeloading: He freeloaded several meals a week.

Origin of freeload

1950–55, Americanism; back formation from freeloader (free + load + -er¹)

Related formsfree·load·er, noun

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Related Words for freeloading

bumming, leeching, sponging, bloodsucking, parasitical

Examples from the Web for freeloading

Historical Examples of freeloading

Let's say you don't think of scrounging off food stores or working out a way of freeloading or hitting soup lines.
The Old Die Rich
Horace Leonard Gold

British Dictionary definitions for freeloading

freeload

verb

(intr) slang to act as a freeloader; sponge

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