| 释义 |
mouse potato  noun informalA person who spends large amounts of leisure or working time operating a computer.Nobody allows you to remain a couch potato or a mouse potato any more: you have to respond to polls, contests, and invitations to what is being said on the programme on air....- Her lack of wireless is really holding her back from becoming a full fledged mouse potato.
- PC nerds addicted to their computers will be known as ‘mouse potatoes’, even if they are e-mailing their ‘keypals’, the new word for penpals.
Origin 1990s: on the pattern of couch potato. |