"desk potato" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: desk potatoes [plural]
Etymology: desk + potato, by analogy with couch potato. Head templates: {{en-noun|desk potatoes}} desk potato (plural desk potatoes)
  1. (informal) A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk. Tags: informal Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-desk_potato-en-noun-BcTAWByD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "desk + potato, by analogy with couch potato.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Marlene L. Woelm, The Ghosts on 87th Lane, Llewellyn, →ISBN, page 84:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Phil Trupp, Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments and Beat Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:",
          "text": "I knew the job of writing the book would turn me into a desk potato.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sifu Slim, Sedentary Nation: The Answers Are Found in 1910, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Compare that to a desk potato whose gaze is focused on the screen, inputting data into QuickBooks or Excel.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk."
      ],
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Phil Trupp, Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments and Beat Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:",
          "text": "I knew the job of writing the book would turn me into a desk potato.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sifu Slim, Sedentary Nation: The Answers Are Found in 1910, →ISBN:",
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        "(informal) A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk."
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