Crossword clues for freeloader
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share, usually athletic. 2 (context UK NZ Canada Scotland English) An individual who gets merchandise from the back of supermarket premises that is past its sell-by date.
WordNet
n. someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others
Wikipedia
Freeloader is a game published by Cheapass Games. The object of the game is to mooch as much free stuff as possible off of your friends and neighbours.
Freeloader comes with a set of 6 cardboard board pieces which are arranged in a circle. Each card is a house around the neighborhood. The houses belong to a doctor, a gambler, a hippie, an artist, a lawyer, and a waitress. Players move around the neighborhood by rolling dice. On any turn they can also choose to do a favor for someone - this is noted by them placing one of their tokens on that person's house. They can also choose at any time to draw a card instead of moving. The cards in their hand represent the things which they have their eye on. On their turn a player may also choose to trade in some of their favors for an item in their hand, playing it down onto the table into their "stuff". Each item costs a certain number of favors, and there are discounts depending on the house they borrow from and if they are the best friend of its owner. For example the silk tie costs less if you are the lawyers best friend, while the leftover pork costs less if you are at the waitresses house.
The game ends when the last card is drawn. At this time only those players who have mooched food, clothing, and shelter can win. Amongst those the player with the most points win (each item is worth a certain number of points). This can lead to cutthroat strategy. For example, your opponent may have 20 more points than you, but if you can take away his only shelter item he does not qualify to win.
Each card in the deck is illustrated, and most contain humorous diary entries about them.
The game itself is published under the Cheapass Games philosophy of not including unnecessary pieces. This means you will need to provide your own playing pieces, tokens and dice (which can usually be borrowed from other games).
A typical game of Freeloader takes 1 to 1.5 hours to play.
A freeloader is a person who engages in freeloading. Freeloader may also refer to:
- Freeloaders (band), an electronic music act
- Freeloaders (film), a Broken Lizard film
- Freeloader (game), a board game created by Cheapass Games
- Freeloader boot disks, a series of video game boot disks (e.g. the Wii Freeloader)
Usage examples of "freeloader".
We had one flaming scuzzbucket of a city councilman, a few years ago, wanted to cut costs by getting rid of what he called freeloaders.
There were two hundred well-wishers and freeloaders present, all wearing partial or full false faces of sequined shimmer-cloth that stretched snugly over their features and was somehow unable to conceal (for Guil, at least) the beastiality that lurked on the true expressions that had leered from the tiers of the Great Hall only hours earlier.