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desk potatoes

desk potatoes is the plural of desk potato.

Meaning of desk potato

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

Questions about desk potatoes

What is desk potatoes the plural of?
Desk potatoes is the plural of desk potato.

Words near desk potatoes in the dictionary

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

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