mouse-potato
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mouse potato — ˈmouse poˌtato noun mouse potatoes PLURALFORM [countable] informal someone who spends a lot of time playing on a computer, especially using the Internet: • My 14 year old son has become a mouse potato ever since he was given his own PC for his… … Financial and business terms
mouse potato — noun (slang) A person who spends a great deal of time using a computer, esp for leisure (on the analogy of couch potato under ↑couch1) • • • Main Entry: ↑mouse * * * ˈmouse potato 7 noun (informal … Useful english dictionary
mouse potato — n. A person who spends a great deal of of time in front of a computer (cf. couch potato). Example Citation: Log onto the World Wide Web, type in the address www.superbowl.com, and you enter a football fantasyland featuring equal amounts of… … New words
mouse potato — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms mouse potato : singular mouse potato plural mouse potatoes informal someone who spends long periods of time using the Internet or playing computer games … English dictionary
mouse potato — n. someone who spends a great amount of time using a computer. (Based on couch potato.) □ Every since we got the new computer, Jane has turned into a regular mouse potato. mouth 1. n. a hangover. □ I’ve got quite a mouth this morning. I guess I… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
mouse potato — noun /ˈmaʊs pəˈteɪ.təʊ,maʊs pəʊ.teɪ.təʊ/ A person who spends excessive amounts of time using a computer. Lady Miss Kier is a mouse potato. I wake up, I go and turn the computer on before I wash my face or brush my teeth. Ill be sitting there in… … Wiktionary
mouse\ potato — Someone who sits in front of her computer for long periods of time without communicating with actual people. Stop being a mouse potato. Go outside and talk to some real guys … Dictionary of american slang
mouse\ potato — Someone who sits in front of her computer for long periods of time without communicating with actual people. Stop being a mouse potato. Go outside and talk to some real guys … Dictionary of american slang
mouse potato — mouse′ pota to n. inf a person who spends much leisure time at a computer, usually on the Internet • Etymology: 1990–95; patterned after couch potato … From formal English to slang
mouse potato — mouse po,tato noun count INFORMAL someone who spends long periods of time using the Internet or playing computer games … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Mouse potato — one addicted to surfing the Internet (blend of mouse + couch potato ) … Dictionary of Australian slang
