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couch surf en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(informal, intransitive) To use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.
"Couch-surfing allows musicians who couldn't tour before to get out and get their music heard," Fenton says. It also beats sleeping in a van.
2009 January, SPIN, volume 25, number 1, page 26:I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms (I had a key ring that looked like it belonged to a janitor) while I tried to reinvent myself.
2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13:Move into your house, I'm a couch surfer, Can I crash at your place again? Just one more night? I'm surfing, couch surfing
1997, James Di Salvio, E. P. Bergen, “Couch Surfer”, in Glee, performed by Bran Van 3000:The term homeless youth can include shelter-based or street-based youth, as well as young people couch-surfing (doubled-up with friends or lovers).
2008, Robert Hartmann McNamara, Homelessness in America, volume 1, page 158:
Forms
Coordinates
sexsurfing
Deriveds
couch surfer · couch surfing
Synonyms
bed surf · sofa surf