couch potato

1. 1.

   an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)

   Broaderidler

   television

Questions about couch potato

What does couch potato mean?

couch potato means "an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)".

Is couch potato a common word?

couch potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.