FREELOADER, n. A man or woman unable to find work, eking out a miserable existence on food stamps and, if exceptionally fortunate, unemployment insurance and friends with couches. Not to be confused with those who earned their idleness through wise choice of parents.
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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary
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