Ooch

I ooched my car forward. In Dallas, tailgaiting is an art. You have to protect your place in traffic, or some yahoo will sneak in before you. So you have to drive two inches away from the bumper in front of you.

It was Stephen yet not Stephen whose calloused hand was rubbing her thigh; her skirt was ooched up around her hips – she was on guard as was her habit in those days.

Brig ooched his chair next to mine, then casually wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

So Kelp donned his stethoscope, ooched himself a little further in under the counter, and, while pressing the stethoscope to the face of the safe, began slowly to turn the combination dial.

An oocher, according to the The Encyclopedia Erratica, is a motorist who persists in ooching his speed to 35-miles-an-hour in a 30-mile zone. He also is the guy who insists on ooching another drink after the bars close.

The credit card is inflationary (merchants must be expected to ooch prices a bit to compensate for their kickbacks to the banks), even though it is responsible for only 2% of today's $98.2 billion in consumer debt.

TV technology always ooched her away from wholesome programs about, for example, seals or giraffes, towards maybe, for heaven's sake, MTV.

I am rarely political in my work, but apparently present and proposed military engagements have "ooched" their way into the consciousness of my dye pot.

I realize that ooching might seem like a stretch for writers. It's one thing for a tech start-up to ooch their software, but it's a different proposition for a writer to ooch a book. After all, writing a book takes a long time. How do you iterate on a novel when the first draft alone might take years?

There is one man I haven't mentioned, who quietly, without any ostentation at all, circulated among all the thousands of boys and girls, who had been "ooched" out of Johnsville when the guards were arrested, a fellow by the name of Rifkin.

This was a high-class white neighborhood in those days, before the colored ooched them out.

She didn't really pull away, just ooched over a little, leaving two or three inches between us—and I liked her better for it.

All a guy has to do is yank on a T-shirt or a sweatshirt or something and he's done. No wires to pinch, no straps to slip, no overflow ooching over the sides or between the zipper that refuses to close unless you lie flat on your back and give up breathing.

Then my little white-haired mother Jean Eagle ooched in for her hug.

I still got sand stuck between my toes. I can feel it ooching around down there.

Yes, Mr. Porter is ooching in his chair because we think you're dead wrong on that.

Obsessed now with the idea that I had to retrieve those papers, I went around to the end of the platform, shoved aside the two low wooden steps, and peered under. Now nice, orderly rows of steel legs appeared, spaced apart and forming a low crawl space. Removing my coat, I began ooching under. I could see my papers leaning against the wall. Ooch, reach, got 'em!

Dangling head-down from a piece of siding on the house, the caterpillar shed its skin like a fleshy lady ooching out of her panty hose.

I mean, come on, unemployment is down for 3 straight months, and that's a good thing. In fact, unemployment claims, even they ooched up a tiny bit now, are for the last 3 or 4 months at all-time lows, which is encouraging in terms of what it says about the fundamentals of this economy.

We have often found that after a short period of "ooching" our way into a new venture, we need to change strategies and goals to take advantage of the new opportunities and markets that present themselves.

One afternoon as Lou ooched across the hot pavement in that awkward transition from the shade to the water, a black bathing suit and a slender arm brushed by him.

Let me tell you my thoughts about tax relief. When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

Once Toby was underway, and as the day had ooched forward without further calamity, Randy and Matthew made a quick escape for some necessary errands.

The "ooching" terminology is our favorite, but we wanted to be clear that these groups are all basically saying the same thing: Dip a toe in before you plunge in headfirst. Given the popularity of this concept, and given the clear payoff involved—little bets that can improve large decisions—you might wonder why ooching isn't more instinctive.

From what General Slate said, Prettyboy will just get ooched out of Fort Murray and shipped to some nice restful post in Alaska.