Italian Expression of the Day#9

A scrocco is an expression that can be attached to many verbs. In English the expression comes in many forms: freeloading, mooching, sponging off, scrounging.

So you can say mangiare a scrocco (to freeload a meal), vivere a scrocco (to mooch), viaggiare a scrocco (to scrounge a trip off somebody) and so forth.