couch surfern.
/ˈkaʊtʃ ˌsəːfə/, U.S. /ˈkaʊtʃ ˌsərfər/ colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).
1. A person who (habitually) engages in sedentary activities, esp. television watching; a ‘couch potato’.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > watching television
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couch potato1979
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1991 Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) 27 May a6/1 By pushing seven telephone buttons, couch surfers can order the latest cinematic fare in video movies.
2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 12 Jan. (Globe Television) 8 Top-level athletes perform feats that couch surfers can only dream of.
2009 M. Ostow & D. Ostow So Punk Rock 33 I enjoy Family Guy as much as the next intensely bored, unmotivated couch-surfer might.
2. A person who sleeps overnight on a couch (or in similar makeshift accommodations) as a house guest; spec. one who does this in a series of homes, often as a substitute for permanent housing.
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1993 Winnipeg Free Press 2 Oct. 1/2 Couch surfers—people who live off the kindness and living room furniture of their friends.
1999 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 24 June (Final ed.) a10 On average, 172 people stay in emergency shelters on any given night in the region. Others—the couch surfers—crash with friends or relatives.
2010 L. Fitton et al. Twitter for Dummies (ed. 2) 216 Twitter has also proved useful for couch-surfers, who have come to know interesting and accommodating people in different fields of expertise.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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