mouse potato
noun [C] humorousDefinition
› a person who spends a lot of time on their computer and does not have an active style of lifeLaziness and lazy peopleAvoiding action
(Definition of mouse potato noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- bum around phrasal verb
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- couch potato noun
- deadbeat noun
- idly adverb
- indolent adjective
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- lazy adjective
- lazybones noun
- phone in sth phrasal verb
- shiftless adjective
- shirker noun
- skiver noun
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