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desk potato en · NOUN

Etymology

From desk + potato, by analogy with couch potato.

Meanings

1. (informal) A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk.
   • Compare that to a desk potato whose gaze is focused on the screen, inputting data into QuickBooks or Excel. 2015, Sifu Slim, Sedentary Nation: The Answers Are Found in 1910, →ISBN:
   • 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:

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