Definition of a couch potato

couch potato    

noun

• a lazy person, especially someone who spends a extended period of time on a couch while watching television.

  Come on, couch potato! Let's go outside.

  • See more words with the same meaning: a lazy person.

  Last edited on Oct 19 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'a lazy person':
piker	Definitions include: a lazy person.
lazy dog	Definitions include: a lazy person.
slackass	Definitions include: a lazy person.
half-*ss	Definitions include: terrible, lousy, respect-less, lazy.
drainer	Definitions include: a person who is a total slacker, or completely lazy.
almy	Definitions include: excessively fat or lazy.
bum	Definitions include: to be sad.
sh*t-bag	Definitions include: a person who is lazy, good for nothing, incompetent, or have little regard for the law.
loaf around	Definitions include: to be lazy.
bum around	Definitions include: to be lazy.
slack-jaw	Definitions include: a moron or lazy person, typically residing in a rural area; "bumpkin".
loaf	Definitions include: to rest.
loaf about	Definitions include: to be lazy.
rest and vest	Definitions include: at a place of employment, to do little work while waiting for one's stock options to vest.
dosser	Definitions include: a lazy person - i.e. one who dosses.
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Other terms relating to 'couch':
casting couch	Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position.
couch	Definitions include: to be on a couch with one or more other people.
couch surf	Definitions include: to spend a period of time sleeping at other people's homes, often on their couches.
f*ck (one's) couch	Definitions include: created and popularized by "Chappelles show" on comedy central is pretty much: fuck you, or go to hell
play couch camando	Definitions include: to have power over the TV remote control.
Other terms relating to 'potato':
big potato	Definitions include: a person very high up in an industry's hierarchy.
California potato chip	Definitions include: dried sperm
dig (one's) potatoes	Definitions include: to try to swoop on somebody's lover.
hot potato	Definitions include: something no one wants to handle or accept responsibility for.
meat-n-potatoes	Definitions include: penis
potato	Definitions include: A word women use around boys or children for use of the word "period"
potatoes	Definitions include: money.
potato quality	Definitions include: of a photo, poor quality.
small potatoes	Definitions include: something insignificant.
strain the potatoes	Definitions include: to urinate.

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