A couch potato is a person who lies on the sofa watching television all day. Become a couch potato.
It is mocking and affectionate at once, which is why nobody objects to being called one. The phrase was coined in 1976 as a pun on an old slang name for television.
1phrasecouch potatoA person who lies on the sofa watching TV all day.
“He was a couch potato for the whole of that January.”
couch potato is a person.
Coined in 1976 as a pun on boob tuber, from boob tube for television and tuber for a potato.
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From couch + potato; coined by Tom Iacino in 1976 as a pun on boob tuber (from boob tube (“television”) and tuber (“potato”)); trademarked by Robert Armstrong from 1976–91.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA