Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
WordNet
n. an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
Wikipedia
A couch potato is a person who leads a sedentary lifestyle.
Couch potato may also refer to:
- "Couch Potato" (song), a song by Weird Al Yankovic
- Couch Potato (TV series), an Australian children's television series
- Couch Potatoes (game show), an American game show
- CouchPotato, a PVR application for downloading movies via BitTorrent and Usenet.
"Couch Potato" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of the Academy Award winning song " Lose Yourself" by Eminem. In it, the narrator details his obsession with watching television and the television shows he watches.
Couch Potato was an Australian children's television show broadcast on ABC TV in Australia and a staple of Classic ABC.
Airing on Sunday mornings, it was a "wrapper" show linking three or four animated or live action shows aimed at older pre-teen and young teenage audiences.
Usage examples of "couch potato".
I want to take a shower, get into clean clothes, and turn into a couch potato.
But even being a couch potato in the nineties and facing up to what's creeping around on our city streets is enough to make you tougher than Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe combined.
He tripped over a couch potato he hadn't seen, and landed flat on the couch.
Steady, gray drizzle that encourages statewide bad hair and couch potato mentality.
Mi- els really didn't mind, since he would usually just as stay home as go out after a hard day at the office, it was all too easy to turn into a couch potato who yed home all the time, warm and secure in the nest, baby hadn't helped that.
I should have yours--Im the couch potato, the settee spud, the Murphy-bed murphy.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life as a cyberspace couch potato.
It was the dentures he could not abide -- the false fangs that always slipped out at the most inopportune moments or worse, got stuck in the neck of some pitiful couch potato too flabby and lungless to outrun a sexacentenarian.