Informal. a person whose leisure time is spent watching television.
Origin
1980-85
Examples from the web for couch potato
They remind me of the couch potato who watches the news and bellows out to the president how he should run the country.
But even the laziest couch potato may soon notice some changes to his television set.
It grunts, it drools, and it's about as sluggish as a couch potato.
But asking the government to fix them is the couch potato's solution.
For the couch potato, the range of choice is growing, not shrinking.
It is also unfair to cast the kingdom as a couch potato.
Eating fatty foods, not exercising and somehow remaining lean and healthy--it's the couch potato's dream.
Even as they swing in constant, languid motion, orangutans burn fewer calories than a human couch potato.
He's orating from a position familiar to populists everywhere: couch potato.
If you want to be a couch potato, you might as well be a well-dressed one.
British Dictionary definitions for couch potato
couch potato
noun
1.
(slang) a lazy person whose recreation consists chiefly of watching television and videos
Slang definitions & phrases for couch potato
couch potato
noun phrase
A habitual lounger, esp a person who spends much time watching television: They're not couch potatoes. They're mobile, they go out/ the period that Anglophile couch potatoes find most fascinating(entry form 1970s+, variant 1990s+)