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desk potato

desk potato noun: a person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk.

Noun

desk potato (plural desk potatoes)

  1. (informal) A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk.
    • My receptionist job had turned me into a desk potato, so I began walking Pete every night in the fall of 1979 to provide the exercise my body was craving.2007, Marlene L. Woelm, The Ghosts on 87th Lane, Llewellyn, →ISBN, page 84
    • I knew the job of writing the book would turn me into a desk potato.2010, Phil Trupp, Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments and Beat Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236

Forms of desk potato

pluraldesk potatoes

Origin of desk potato

From desk + potato, by analogy with couch potato.

Questions about desk potato

What does desk potato mean?
Desk potato means a person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk.
What part of speech is desk potato?
Desk potato is a noun.
What is the plural of desk potato?
The plural of desk potato is desk potatoes.

Words near desk potato in the dictionary

  1. desk organizers
  2. desk pad
  3. desk pads
  4. desk pilot
  5. desk pilots
  6. desk potato
  7. desk potatoes
  8. desk rage
  9. desk rejection
  10. desk rejections
  11. desk sergeant

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