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scooches

scooches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scooch.

scooches is the plural of scooch.

Meaning of scooch

Verb

scooch (third-person singular simple present scooches, present participle scooching, simple past and past participle scooched)

  1. (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."1992, Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
  2. To crouch.
    • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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Phrases with scooches

Questions about scooches

What is scooches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scooches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scooch.

Words near scooches in the dictionary

  1. Scooby-Doos
  2. scooch
  3. scooch over
  4. scooched
  5. scooched over
  6. scooches
  7. scooches over
  8. scooching
  9. scooching over
  10. scoodie
  11. scoodies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scooches (page history and authors); scooch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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