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channel flicker

channel flicker noun: a remote control.

Noun

channel flicker (plural channel flickers)

  1. A remote control.
    • Use the channel flicker if TV shows or commercials are too suggestive or show too much skin.1992, Johnson, Greg; Yorkey, Mike, "Daddy's home" : a practical guide for maximizing the most important hours of your day, page 112
    • The day an unemployed iron worker can lay in his barcolounger with a Foster’s in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and do it with Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it’s going to make crack look like Sanka.1994, David E. Day, Cyberlife!, page 326
    Synonyms:
    flicker
  2. A person who compulsively watches excessive amounts of television.
    • He became a channel-flicker par excellence, juggling images in his head, sandbags against loneliness, which only succeeded in keeping him awake, since his mind, unlike the television, could not be switched off at will.1995, Brookfield, Amanda, Walls of glass, page 110
    • I begin to wonder what those difficulties were. The problem of the remote-control channel flicker is that he’s never quite sure what the topic is when his flicking stops.1998, Paul Kropp, I'll be the parent, you be the kid : the hot-button topics in parenting, page 53

Examples of channel flicker in a sentence

  • She's sitting there like Captain Pike from "Star Trek." She had a channel flicker.1998, Miller, Dennis, The rants, page 173:
  • “There won’t be a next time,” he said, tossing the channel flicker onto the coffee table.1999, Pendleton, Don, Judas kill, page 159:
  • Aimee heaved herself up from the chair, dropping the channel flicker as she rose.2004, Mary Beth Miller, Aimee, page 132:
  • He watches everything, anything, is a habitual channel flicker, and keeps up a steady dialogue with the programming that is really a way of talking to his wife.2011, Andrea Gillies, chapter 13, in Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimeimers:

Synonyms of channel flicker

Forms of channel flicker

pluralchannel flickers

Origin of channel flicker

From channel + flicker.

Questions about channel flicker

What does channel flicker mean?
Channel flicker means a remote control.
How do you use channel flicker in a sentence?
She's sitting there like Captain Pike from "Star Trek." She had a channel flicker.
What part of speech is channel flicker?
Channel flicker is a noun.
What is the plural of channel flicker?
The plural of channel flicker is channel flickers.

Words near channel flicker in the dictionary

  1. channel coal
  2. Channel Country
  3. channel drift
  4. channel fever
  5. channel flashing
  6. channel flicker
  7. channel goose
  8. channel hop
  9. channel hopped
  10. channel hopping
  11. channel hops

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