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COUCH POTATO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does couch potato mean?
• COUCH POTATO (noun)
The noun COUCH POTATO has 1 sense:
1. an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
Familiarity information: COUCH POTATO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("couch potato" is a kind of...):
bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)
Domain category:
telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)
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