mitch

/ mɪtʃ /

verb

1. dialect,  (intr) to play truant from school

Word History and Origins

Origin of mitch¹

C13: probably from Old French muchier, mucier to hide, lurk

Example Sentences

Popovich, 76, suffered a stroke last November and stepped down as coach of the Spurs five games into the 2024-25 campaign with current head coach Mitch Johnson promoted to replace him on first an interim then permanent basis.

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Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.

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At the end of Hitchcock’s film, Mitch and Melanie drive away slowly from Bodega Bay as the birds survey them balefully; in the story, the Hockens retreat into their boarded-up cottage and await a far less certain fate.

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“The economy doesn’t look like it is slowing down,” said Bullard, now the dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University.

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Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell plans to step down at the end of his current term, opening up the seat he has held for four decades.

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