See stooze on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014 June 19, Sophie Christie, “£5000 a year for nothing: could 'stoozing' make a comeback?”, in The Telegraph:",
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"ref": "2015 November 17, Amelia Murray, “Return of 'stoozing': how you can profit again from 0pc credit cards”, in The Telegraph:",
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